Op-Ed Contributor - Diplomacy That Will Live in Infamy - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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The one who had the greater effect on Japan’s behavior was Theodore Roosevelt — whose efforts to end the war between Japan and Russia earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Roosevelt knew that Japan coveted the Korean Peninsula as a springboard to its Asian expansion.
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“maintain the strictest neutrality,” but privately he wrote, “The sympathies of the United States are entirely on Japan’s side.”
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“All the Asiatic nations are now faced with the urgent necessity of adjusting themselves to the present age. Japan should be their natural leader in that process, and their protector during the transition stage, much as the United States assumed the leadership of the American continent many years ago, and by means of the Monroe Doctrine, preserved the Latin American nations from European interference. The future policy of Japan towards Asiatic countries should be similar to that of the United States towards their neighbors on the American continent.”
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In a secret presidential cable to Tokyo, in July 1905, Roosevelt approved the Japanese annexation of Korea and agreed to an “understanding or alliance” among Japan, the United States and Britain “as if the United States were under treaty obligations.”
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an unconstitutional act.
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Anglo-American policy of imperialistic exploitation and to sacrifice themselves to the prosperity of the two nations.
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“favorable opportunities were gained by opening the war with a sudden attack on the main enemy fleet.”
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“I was thoroughly well pleased with the Japanese victory, for Japan is playing our game.”
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No one in Oslo, or in the United States Congress, knew the truth then.
