How Did That Memo End Up Promoting Japanese War With the Us?

john coster argues white's proposed bribe and the demand that japan lease half its naval and air forces to the united states, if made public, would have sparked riots in tokio and rebellion in korea. He had draft a virtual declaration of war. But this supposed declaration of war didn't work at least in may of 19 forty one. The reason was that white had overstepped himself. In section three of the memorandum he tried to split the soviet union from the molitov ribbon pact. Despite stallan's alliance with hitler, his participation in the dismemberment of poland and his infamous attack on finland,. White suggested that the united states extend