[logician2u]

So intense was the hatred of FDR among some Republicans that they held fast to this slander for years, with many taking their paranoia to their graves.

Just like the War Street Journal to be defending the character (or lack thereof) of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who most certainly did lie his way into a third term, promising to keep America out of Europe's war.

There is also a growing mountain of evidence to back up the contention of many Republicans that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was provoked by many months of USN activity in areas of the Pacific the Japanese controlled.

Shows to go you can't believe everything you read in the newspapers, even the WSJ.

Clare Booth Luce, RIP.

[Jonah Johansen]

Our refusal to back down on our demand that Japan stop its war on China was what caused them to attack.
They were no more "provoked" then the Germans were "provoked" by the Poles in 1939.