Justified Deception
Lillard, Paul
In late 1940 and early 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt was told by his military advisors that Japan intended to expand her empire in the Far East. He knew that if Japan were to seize the resources of the Indies and Malaysia she would become so strong that she would then try to overrun the entire Pacific. Roosevelt knew the United States was totally unprepared for war and although Congress had voted funds for the enlargement of the Navy, whe...