vidivicivini t1_iy1f2va wrote on November 28, 2022 at 12:35 AM Reply to comment by TotallyInOverMyHead in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent It would have worked in the short term but it would have set up a reckoning had the US been forced to accept a temporary defeat. Permalink Parent 9
vidivicivini t1_iy1f2va wrote
Reply to comment by TotallyInOverMyHead in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent
It would have worked in the short term but it would have set up a reckoning had the US been forced to accept a temporary defeat.