2. The Last, Lost Good Chance: 1937

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vi
3. Contents xii
4. Part One: Separation
5. 1. The Arc of Opposition 3
6. 2. The Last, Lost Good Chance: 1937 8
7. 3. 1937-39: Japan Goes Deeper into the Stubble 17
8. 4. The Dismay of the Japanese Strategists: August, 1939 25
9. 5. Separation but Still not Enmity: the Winter of 1939-40 38
10. Part Two. Hostility
11. 6. The First Waves of German Victory Reach the Southwest Pacific: April, 1940 49
12. 7. The Grave Dilemma before the United States: May, 1940 56
13. 8. Japan Starts on the Road South: June, 1940 66
14. 9. The American Government Forbears 72
15. 10. Japan Selects a New Government 76
16. 11. Japan Stencils Its Policy in Indelible Ink: July, 1940 84
17. 12. Our First Firm Counteraction 88
18. 13. Maneuver and Resistance 95
19. 14. We Stop the Shipment of Scrap Iron 101
20. 15. The Making of the Alliance with the Axis: September, 1940 110
21. 16. We Draw Closer to Britain 122
22. 17. After Our Elections: Steps towards a Concerted Program 133
23. 18. Matsuoka Pursues the Great Combination 145
24. 19. At the Same Time Japan Continues to Seek the Best Road South 150
25. 20. Diplomacy by Gesture and Signal: American Policy in the Winter of 1940-41 153
26. Part Three. Enmity
27. 21. We Reach a World-Wide Strategic Accord with Britain: March, 1941 165
28. 22. Hull and Nomura Begin the Search for Formulas of Peace 171
29. 23. Matsuoka Goes to Berlin and Moscow, and Returns with a Neutrality Pact 180
30. 24. The Two Faces of Japanese Diplomacy Glare at One Another: April, 1941 188
31. 25. Would Japan Stand Still While We Extended Ourselves in the Atlantic? The Spring of 1941 196
32. 26. Japan Chafes and Germany Invades the Soviet Union: May- June, 1941 202
33. 27. Japan Makes the Crucial Decision: July 2, 1941 209
34. 28. The Konoye Cabinet Resigns—to Get Rid of Matsuoka 219
35. 29. The United States and Britain Prepare to Impose Sanctions 227
36. 30. We Freeze Japan's Funds 236
37. 31. Was Japan to Have Any More Oil? 242
38. 32. The Choice before Japan Is Defined; and Konoye Seeks a Meeting with Roosevelt 251
39. 33. Roosevelt Meets Churchill; Argentia and After: August 1941 255
40. 34. The Japanese High Command Demands That the Issue with the United States Be Faced and Forced 261
41. 35. The Idea of a Roosevelt-Konoye Meeting Dies; the Deadlock Is Complete: October, 1941 271
42. 36. The Army Insists on a Decision for War; Konoye Quits; Tojo Takes Over 282
43. Part Four. War
44. 37. The Last Offers to the United States Are Formulated: November 5, 1941 291
45. 38. November: The American Government Stands Fast and Hurries Its Preparations 298
46. 39. Japan's Final Proposal for a Truce Is Weighed and Found Wanting 307
47. 40. As Stubborn as Ever: the American Answer, November 26, 1941 320
48. 41. The Last Arrangements and Formalities for War 326
49. 42. The Clasp of War Is Closed 333
50. Index 343