 | Mark Skinner Watson - World War, 1939-1945 - 1950 - 588 pages
...Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot be avoided, the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This policy should not be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might jeopardize your defense. Prior to... | |
 | Roberta Wohlstetter - History - 1962 - 454 pages
...passage just quoted was later translated into the Army warning: "If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided, the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act." The substance of the two sentences is almost the same, but the warning has always been criticized for... | |
 | United States. Department of Defense - Japan - 1978 - 556 pages
...action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot be avoided the US desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This policy should not be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might jeopardize your defense. Prior to... | |
 | Antonio Cassese - Law - 1986 - 554 pages
...to the military commanders in Hawaii contained the sentence: 'If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided, the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act'. ceived the order 'to be on the alert for sabotage' and had acted accordingly. A way out of the threatening... | |
 | James William Morley - Political Science - 1995 - 492 pages
...Walter C. Short and officers under him in Hawaii were issued the following order: "If hostilities cannot be avoided the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act Period."333 This order, Marshall testified, "was a direct instruction from the President."334 Brigadier... | |
 | Richard Rhodes - History - 2012 - 890 pages
...action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot be avoided the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. . . . Measures should be carried out so as not, repeat not, to alarm civil population or disclose intent.... | |
 | Ray Merriam - 1999 - 107 pages
...but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided the US desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This...action that might jeopardize your defense. Prior to Japanese hostile action you are directed to undertake such reconnaissance and other measures as you... | |
 | Robert B. Stinnett - History - 1999 - 402 pages
...FUTURE ACTION UNPREDICTABLE BUT HOSTILE ACTION POSSIBLE AT ANY MOMENT X IF HOSTILITIES CANNOT REPEAT NOT BE AVOIDED THE UNITED STATES DESIRES THAT JAPAN COMMIT THE FIRST OVERT ACT X THIS POLICY SHOULD NOT REPEAT NOT BE CONSTRUED AS RESTRICTING YOU TO A COURSE OF ACTION THAT MIGHT... | |
 | Robert Stinnett - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 438 pages
...HOSTILITIES CANNOT REPEAT HOT BE AVOIDED THE I UNITED STATES DESIRtS THAT JAPAN COMVtT THE FIRST OVERT ACT X THIS POLICY SHOULD NOT REPEAT NOT BE CONSTRUED AS RESTRICTING YOU TO A COURSE or ACTION THAT MIGHT JEOPARDIZE YOUR DEFENSE X PRIOR TO HOSTILE JAPANESE ACTION YOU ARE DIRECTED TO... | |
 | Greg Ward - Travel - 2002 - 312 pages
...action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act." A few days earlier, a Japanese attack fleet, with six aircraft carriers among its 33 vessels, had sailed... | |
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Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat, cannot be avoided, the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. 
