Show notes
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives.
Highlighted moments
They created this artificial time deadline that put them behind the eight ball. If you ignore the time deadline, you could have months, maybe even longer, to negotiate. But because you want to keep the option of going to war open, there's as much of an artificial deadline limiting the time negotiators have to solve this problem some other way as they had in the First World War.
“Some of these colonial powers do not believe, and maybe a lot of Americans don't either, that an Asian, they would have said Oriental at the time. People were capable of something like what the Japanese are about to pull off.”
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