Re: Annual attempt at correction

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

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Von: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Donnerstag, 08. August 2002 18:08

Betreff: RE: Annual attempt at correction





>Michael,

>Of course, the assumption was that the peace overtures were genuine.

Before

>the attack on Pearl Harbor, there were two political forces who either

>favored or opposed the war.  Obviously, the pro-war side won.  I guess the

>question is how realistic were the peace overtures based on what we know

>about the Japanese commitment to defend the home islands, and their refusal

>to have their Emperor be removed from power and possibly tried for war

>crimes.  The arguments that the islands were surrounded under siege by

>Allied naval forces, and under constant air bombardment.  There is no

>question in my mind that Truman wanted Japan to surrender before Russia

>entered the war, which Stalin had agreed to do during the Yalta Conference

>in February 1945.  Of course, Roosevelt was President at that meeting.  I

>believe Russia declared war against Japan two weeks before Japan

surrendered

>on August 15, which was just before the atomic bombs were dropped.



Oh, surprising, you  b e l i e v e ??? You could have looked it up in any

history book. There are some facts: The bomb on Hiroshima was dropped on 6

Aug 45, the one on Nagasaki on 9 Aug. Russia declared war against Japan on 8

Aug and moved into Mandschuria and Korea, and occupied the Kurils and

Sachalin. Japan surrendered on 2 Sept.



These are facts which are found in any history book as I mentioned - and I

wonder how you and many others during this discussion put forward

speculations what political and military leaders might have thought 57 years

ago as if these were facts!



>

>I also believed that the use of the atomic bombs was inevitable.

>





Your "belief" might be as poorly founded as your comment on the dropping of

the bomb and the declaration of war by the Sovjets.





Franz









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