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I may be wrong about that. In my own mind there wasn't any question. It may be that because I didn't have any question I didn't hear somebody else raise one. Memory is like that. You often hear those things which reflect what's in your own mentality. I had no question in my own mind. I had been thinking about this a long time. “The war” was the war with Germany. That was the “world war”. The Japanese had made alliance with Germany. The Japanese had only been fighting the Chinese and that had been a private war before Germany attacked poland and France, and the European countries. So that that private war of the Japanese against the Chinese we had been as a nation attempting to mitigate, ameliorate, bring to a conclusion, divert. That was the onlyway in which we had gotten into these negotiations. The alliance between Japan and Germany had taken place sometime before. When that happened, that in my own mind made the pattern just as clear as a geometric proposition. Japan joins Germany. Germany joins Japan. Therefore, Japan's enemies are Germany's enemies and Germany's enemies are Japan's enemies. Japan is in the Pacific. The question is at what point will the Japanese do something to assist their ally to win the world war. What they're going to get out of it remains between them, but the world war is a war to dominate the world. Japan has made an alliance with Germany. There will be a conclusion. Japan will do her part at the most appropriate and effective time, to be agreed upon





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