Many of the same things woodrow wilson did in the first world war, for example, you can help the allies. That's a bit of a problem when you're portraying yourself as a neutral country. Charles austen beard himself, eight years before the war, predicted it would come from an incident or a provocation. Well, when you have german submarines torpedoing british merchant ships five seconds after they leave the eastern seaboard ports, isn't that just setting up provocation? Isn't that exactly like what happened in the first World War? You got to be crazy to think that that's not going to lead to something that sucks a country into the war. What's
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...