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HISTORY 717 developments in Japanese policy during the period starting with the London Naval Conference in 1930, and ending with the fateful decision, in January 1938, to 'annihilate' the Chinese Nationalist Government. From this examination he draws conclusions which may surprise some of his readers. Not least of these is the fact that the General Staff, which had supported wholeheartedly the seizure of South Manchuria in 1931, was strongly opposed to the Government's decision in 1938 to fight on until Chiang Kai-shek had been utterly defeated. Konoe tried later to shift the blame for this decision onto the Army, but Professor Crowley, asserting that he thereby 'misled his contemporaries and historians' (p. 393), shows clearly the falsity of this claim. From the outbreak of the North China' Incident' in July 1937 onwards, the General Staff had, in fact, striven to prevent the war from spreading and to urge that hostilities be ended by diplomatic negotiations. Ironically, the Government's failure to heed its warnings was based on the impeccable principle that national policy decisions must be made by the Government, not by the Army. Japan was therefore committed to a war, which esc

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Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP); JSTOR (ISSN 0020-5850)

Published

1967

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences