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American Isolationists - Roger B. Jeans

American Isolationists

Pro-Japan Anti-interventionists and the FBI on the Eve of the Pacific War, 1939–1941

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7117-2 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, many Americans, still angry over the outcome of the Great War, determined not to get involved in another global conflict. Called isolationists or anti-interventionists, many of them, especially the America First Committee, focused their attention on the European war when it broke out in September 1939. Most were less interested in Japan’s aggression in East Asia, which left an opening for another isolationist group, the Committee on Pacific Relations, which opposed war with Japan right up to the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

In this first full study of pro-Japan isolationists, Roger B. Jeans provides a detailed history of the committee, which was launched in September 1941, a scant ten weeks before the beginning of the war. Its driving force was Missourian Orland Kay “O. K.” Armstrong, who traveled widely during the late 1930s and early 1940s recruiting prominent Americans for his movement against war with Japan. He and his colleagues were often critical of US policies and of China, the victim of Japanese aggression. As a result, they were often ostracized as pro-Japanese. Jeans draws on previously untapped sources—the personal letters of committee members and the dossiers the FBI compiled on them—to paint a rich picture of this little-known group.

Roger B. Jeans Jr. is Elizabeth Lewis Otey Professor of History Emeritus at Washington and Lee University. His books include The Letters and Diaries of Colonel John Hart Caughey, 1944–1945: With Wedemeyer in World War II China; The CIA and Third Force Movements in China during the Early Cold War: The Great American Dream; andTerasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Isolationism, Japan, and the FBI, 1939–1941

1 O. K. Armstrong and the Pro-Japan Isolationists in Prewar America

2 Businessmen and Generals

3 The Professoriat

4 Pacifists and Former Missionaries

5 Journalists

6 “We Plan to Prevent War, If Possible, with Japan”: The Committee on Pacific Relations

7 The FBI and Pro-Japan Isolationists

Conclusion

Epilogue: The Afterlife of an Isolationist

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 390 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5381-7117-1 / 1538171171
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-7117-2 / 9781538171172
Zustand Neuware
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