The Causes of WarThe peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality. |
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... Japanese invaded European colonies in south - east Asia . As late as October 1940 President Roosevelt was privately confiding that a Japanese attack on the Philippines might not necessarily draw the United States into war against Japan ...
... Japanese invaded European colonies in south - east Asia . As late as October 1940 President Roosevelt was privately confiding that a Japanese attack on the Philippines might not necessarily draw the United States into war against Japan ...
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... Japan was already over - extended and that any Japanese attempt to capture the Dutch East Indies or Malaya could be thwarted . Page then flew to Washington where he heard that American forces were so strengthening the Philippines that ...
... Japan was already over - extended and that any Japanese attempt to capture the Dutch East Indies or Malaya could be thwarted . Page then flew to Washington where he heard that American forces were so strengthening the Philippines that ...
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... Japanese it was considered secure in certain conditions by Englishmen occupying high places . The negotiations between Japan and the United States drifted on . Late in November , Washington made a cautious proposal for a continuing ...
... Japanese it was considered secure in certain conditions by Englishmen occupying high places . The negotiations between Japan and the United States drifted on . Late in November , Washington made a cautious proposal for a continuing ...
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The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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