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7/22/2025, 11:08:24 AM
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>It was in this environment that the Hull Note was written. Despite the terms being highly conciliatory, it's remembered as a declaration of war by Japanese nationalists on account of it calling for a withdrawal from China and recognition of the ROC's government. (Herbert Bix suggests that the biggest sticking point was that Hull didn't distinguish between Manchukuo and China.)
So you're trying to convince me that
1) A high-ranking diplomat in charge of settling disputes in East Asia had a detrimentally poor grasp of the region's political geography, and
2) It was no big deal to ask Japan to give up everything they had seized from 1937 to 1941, after the colossal expenditure of human, financial and material capital?
>It was in this environment that the Hull Note was written. Despite the terms being highly conciliatory, it's remembered as a declaration of war by Japanese nationalists on account of it calling for a withdrawal from China and recognition of the ROC's government. (Herbert Bix suggests that the biggest sticking point was that Hull didn't distinguish between Manchukuo and China.)
So you're trying to convince me that
1) A high-ranking diplomat in charge of settling disputes in East Asia had a detrimentally poor grasp of the region's political geography, and
2) It was no big deal to ask Japan to give up everything they had seized from 1937 to 1941, after the colossal expenditure of human, financial and material capital?
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