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The granddaddy of all deceptive tragedies in American history was the Japanese bombing
of Pearl Harbor. Woodrow Wilson was the American President during the Lusitania
incident and during America’s entry into World War I. Wilson’s Assistant Secretary of the
Navy was Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt surely knew the effectiveness of using the pretense
of an unprovoked act of aggression to incite the American populace to embrace war.
Roosevelt, as we saw in the previous chapter, was a member of the banking fraternity in
New York. Entrance into World War II was a priority of the bankers, and Roosevelt was
looking to induce either Germany or Japan to attack America that entrance into the war
might be accomplished.

Roosevelt began seeking ways to provoke Japan into attacking America. In October 1940
Roosevelt proposed that America’s navy create a blockade of Japanese shipping in the
Pacific, starving them of their war supplies. Admiral J.O. Richardson was asked to lead the
blockade, but he protested vigorously, stating that such a blockade would be an act of war.
One month later Roosevelt while campaigning for re-election told the American people, “I
say to you fathers and mothers, and I will say it again and again and again, your boys will
not be sent into foreign wars.” This reveals the lying nature of those who are disciples of
Satan. Even as Roosevelt was seeking a way to bring America into war, he was promising
America’s mothers and fathers that he would not send their sons into war.

Roosevelt continued to act in ways to provoke Japan. The most effectual action he took was
to place an oil embargo on Japan, and to deny Japan access to the Panama Canal cutting
her off from Venezuelan oil. Japan has no oil resources of her own. Cutting off Japan’s oil
supply would bring the nation to a standstill and cripple her fighting ability. Japan had to
act, and do so quickly.

Roosevelt knew that Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was the logical place for Japan to attack, so he
acted to insure that the Japanese would be enticed to strike there, and that their strike
would inflict great damage. Twice in 1940 Admiral Richardson advised Roosevelt to
withdraw all American ships from Pearl Harbor and to locate them to the West Coast of
America. He argued that his ships were inadequately manned for war, Hawaii was too
exposed, and that fleet defenses at Pearl Harbor for both air and submarine attacks were
below standards.

The administration of President Roosevelt began to receive warnings of Japan’s intent to
attack Pearl harbor as early as January of 1941, a full eleven months before the attack.

The American Ambassador to Tokyo, Joseph C. Grew, was one of the first to officially
discover that Pearl Harbor was the intended target of the Japanese attack, as he
corresponded with President Roosevelt’s State Department on January 27, 1941: “The
Peruvian minister has informed a member of my staff that he had heard from many
sources, including a Japanese source, that, in the event of trouble breaking out between
the United States and Japan, the Japanese intended to make a surprise attack against
Pearl Harbor...”

By August of 1941, “The Dies committee had assembled a large amount of evidence which
more than confirmed suspicions which we had entertained on the basis of surface