One indicator of the possibility of Japanese aggression should have been their behavior in the years preceding 1941. ... It was theorized by some of Roosevelt's staff, however, that realistically, they did this to get ever so closer to the American outpost at Pearl Harbor, to gain a strategic area that would be very instrumental if Japan ever decided to expand towards the Hawaiian Islands and other south Pacific territories. ... (Nassim) Even in this State Department memo, Japanese aggression is noted and warned against. One should have been able to deduce that, most likely, the aggre...

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