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Old October 23rd 03, 11:02 AM
Stuart Wilkes
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"Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj" wrote in message ...
Stuart Wilkes wrote:

"Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj" wrote in message ...

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Don't forget to tell us about all the raw materials Uncle Joe sent to Nazi
Germany.

As well as the raw materials the US sent to Japan.

Stuart Wilkes


Did the US have a pact with Japan, similar to the Stalin Hitler,
Molotov Ribbentrop pact to divide Europe between them?



No. The US government had no particular interest in dividing Mongolia
and Siberia with Japan. Mongolia and Siberia are not particularly
feasable routes if a Japanese government has the intention of
attacking the US. And the Japanese attacks on the Soviets and
Mongolia drew no adverse reaction from the US.

Stuart Wilkes


Regarding your assertion equating pre 1941 US Japan trade with
soviet assistance to Hitlers reich.


yes, Rostyk?

Wasn't there an embargo placed on shipments of steel between
the two countries, as well as access to oil?


Not while the Soviet-Japan border war was going. That ran between
1937 - 1939. The US did not freeze Japanese assets and embargo scrap
steel and oil until 1941.

How does this support your implications?


It has nothing to do with them, since the shipments continued
throughout the entire Soviet-Japan border war.

Stuart Wilkes