The prime minister, prince kanoe, puts his feelers forward and wants to have a meeting with roosevelt in an attempt to use this intricate japanese governmental system. Roosevelt can't come right away, cause he's meeting secretly with winston churchill on some naval vessels in the atlantic,. They'll come out of it with something that's known to history as the atLantic charter, a template for the governance of the post second world war world. Is the shorthand. But there's a lot of high minded, woodrow wilson type stuff in it self, determination, people should be able to elect their own governments... We celebrate it in the united states and
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...