elektra
Diamond Member
Not true, incorrect, your link does not mention surrender. As I stated, they were negotiating anything but, surrender.Incorrect. From a cable intercepted by the United States:And now we have gone from, the Japanese were trying to surrender to, "the japanese were negotiating with Russians".Until then, the Japanese had been hoping that the Russians — who had previously signed a nonaggression pact with Japan — might be intermediaries in negotiating an end to the war.
Yes, it is well known, that the Japanese wanted to negotiate a peace where they lost nothing that they had invaded. They were not trying to surrender, they were negotiating a truce, where they still win.
Thank you for once again proving the morality of using atomic bombs to end the war. As it was the only way the war was to end, in august of 1945.
"We consider the maintenance of peace in East Asia to be one aspect of the maintenance of world peace. Accordingly, Japan—as a proposal for ending the war and because of her concern for the establishment and maintenance of lasting peace—has absolutely no idea of annexing or holding the territories which she occupied during the war." - Shigenori Tōgō, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan, via Naotake Satō, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., July 12, 1945
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/29.pdf
What territories were they exactly, speaking of? Burma? Who knows.
Either way the russians said no, and we were not involved at all.
Holding the Russian territories, what about the countries japan was holding?
And again, the cable does not mention a surrender.
I am not incorrect in the least.