Government Deceit Quotes
The Japanese diplomats had delivered the last part of a 14 part response to the American peace proposals. The Japanese had strung the repose out with much dissembling to cover up the fact that the Japanese fleet was sailing to attack Pearl Harbor. At the time Hull made this intended diplomatically insulting statement, he and the American leadership knew that Pearl Harbor had been attacked, while the Japanese diplomats knew the attack was planned but did not know it had taken place as their code description of the cables was not very efficient. FDR and Hull had decided to send the Japanese Diplomats back to Japan, but Hull could not refrain from chastising Nomura and the Japanese for their duplicity.
Sung to the tune of an old English pub song, "Down at the Olde Bull and Bush." The Congressman also fancies himself a pianist.
After several days of protest, Milosevic, yielded.
At the time Japan had a strong Fascist military wing and the army was not under the control of the civilian government. The government diplomats were less aggressive and expansionist as the military was. The Japanese diplomats would assure other governments like the United States of their peaceful intentions and then the Japanese army would do something that was completely contradictory. As the militarist wing gained domination over the government, the diplomats would strategically lie, and then claim what whatever the army did, was done be rogue officers and was not part of government policy. See {627085}.
