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...events leading up to Pearl Harbor. Their testimony gave the most intimate account yet told of the fated diplomacy of 1941 : August 9-11. At the Atlantic Conference, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were confronted with the fact that Japanese troops had moved into French Indo-China, were massing on the Thailand border, that bellicose Japanese spokesmen were complaining of "encirclement" by the U.S., Britain and China. Churchill urged a joint warning to the Japs, wanted Roosevelt to declare that further Jap aggression would force the U.S. to take counter-measures "even though these might lead to war." The President...
...restiveness of India, the bitter rebellion of Indo-China and Indonesia, the conflict within China had an immense and common impulse: the surge of a billion people toward a new place in the world...
Kurusu: No, nothing of particular interest except that it is quite clear now that that southward-ah-the south, the south matter is having considerable effect. [This was a reference to Jap troops in French Indo-China...
...intercepted messages there were numerous references to possible points where hostilities might break out: Indo-China, Siam, new theaters in China. There were only a few slight hints that Hawaii was considered. On Nov. 29, Tokyo had cabled its consulate in Honolulu: "We have been receiving reports from you on ship movements, but in future will you also report even when there are no movements." And on Dec. 6 Honolulu cabled back to Tokyo: "The following ships were observed at anchor-nine battleships, three light cruisers, three submarine tenders, 17 destroyers, and in addition there were four light cruisers...
Like the Dutch in Indonesia (see above), the French were finding it far from easy to regain their grip on Indo-China. Here too the U.S. played an indirect somewhat reluctant role: the French were using Lend-Lease equipment against the natives...