Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Pearl Harbor Message-ID: <700@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 10:21:52 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.700 Posted: Thu Feb 23 10:21:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 00:40:52 EST References: <5825@uiucdcs.UUCP>, <697@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 -- As John Hobson stated, the Japanese declaration of war was supposed to arrive just minutes before the attack. This could only have been conceived as a bizarre courtesy gesture, since the Japanese did not believe in formal declarations of war. This should have been well known by the American State Department, at least to anyone who studied the Russo-Japanese War of 1904. But just as the US assumed that a failure to declare war before actually engaging in battle constituted a dastardly sneak attack, Japan seemed to assume that delivering such a declaration before attacking, no matter how soon before, would make the attack somehow legitimate in American eyes. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 23 Feb 84 [4 Ventose An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***