Pearl Harbor: Japs Trying to Escape Panama for Chile on Dec. 2, 1941
Gee, I Wonder Why They're So Anxious to Leave US-Controlled Areas
According to the court historians, FDR had no idea that Japan was about to attack Pearl Harbor. War came out of nowhere. It was a sneak attack. It was a surprise. War was not inevitable, after all, the President was sending peace messages the night before the Pearl Harbor attack.
Yet here is a State Department memo that shows otherwise.
“War is almost inevitable”
The Japanese in U.S.-dominated Panama were trying to escape to Chile, and the Chilean government was refusing them.
This memo was sent by U.S. Ambassador to Chile Claude Bowers to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles.
Dated December 2, 1941. Stamped received by the Secretary of State’s Under Secretary on December 4th.
In the memo it references the Chilean Foreign Secretary, Juan Bautista Rossetti.
Welles is basically running the State Department during this period of time, and was in the FDR/Eleanor Roosevelt wedding party when he was 12. He was not a random lowly civil servant without access to the President.
Welles was fired in 1943 after soliciting illegal sex from trainworkers, Pullman car porters, during a Sept. 1940 trip to Alabama. Roosevelt was furious at those who had not tried to protect Welles from being fired.
December 4th was a Thursday. Sunday the attack in Pearl Harbor begins.
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Pt 5 - Yes, there was Warning of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Pt 4 - ‘Very Bitter’ Housewife in ‘45 Notes Flaws in the Official Story
Pt 3 - Lloyd’s of London Cancelled Insurance Policies in August 1941
Pt 2 - Tips About The Pearl Harbor Attack 77 Years Late
Pt 1 - Pearl Harbor Revisionism