America and the Pacific, 1941-1991 || The Rising Sun in the Pacific

✍ Scribed by Samuel Eliot Morison

• Book ID: 125235234
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 356 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20045009

✦ Synopsis

On 6 December President Roosevelt played his last card for peace?a personal message to Emperor Hirohito, begging him for the sake of humanity to withdraw the military and naval forces from southern Indochina which threatened the Philippines, Malaya, Thailand and "the hundreds of islands of the East Indies." Hirohito did not want war with the United States, but he wanted still less to