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American Isolationists - Pro-Japan Anti-interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific War, 1939-1941 (Hardcover)
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American Isolationists - Pro-Japan Anti-interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific War, 1939-1941 (Hardcover)
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With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, many Americans, still
angry over the outcome of the Great War, determined not to get
involved in another global conflict. Called isolationists or
anti-interventionists, many of them, especially the America First
Committee, focused their attention on the European war when it
broke out in September 1939. Most were less interested in Japan's
aggression in East Asia, which left an opening for another
isolationist group, the Committee on Pacific Relations, which
opposed war with Japan right up to the day of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor. In this first full study of pro-Japan
isolationists, Roger B. Jeans provides a detailed history of the
committee, which was launched in September 1941, a scant ten weeks
before the beginning of the war. Its driving force was Missourian
Orland Kay "O. K." Armstrong, who traveled widely during the late
1930s and early 1940s recruiting prominent Americans for his
movement against war with Japan. He and his colleagues were often
critical of US policies and of China, the victim of Japanese
aggression. As a result, they were often ostracized as
pro-Japanese. Jeans draws on previously untapped sources-the
personal letters of committee members and the dossiers the FBI
compiled on them-to paint a rich picture of this little-known
group.
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