Why did Cordell Hull not see the attack on Pearl Harbor coming? OOTFH

[NormanStewart]

@boemboemtsjak

my major point is that the Roosevelt government was deliberately (a word he himself used in his famous speech) and intentionally going on a collision course to envoke war.

Not just with Japan. Read the German declaration of war. Note the mentions of the Greer, Kearny and Reuben James incidents.

America at war! (1941– ) (Part 1)

[de-flag] German Declaration of War on the United States December 11, 1941, 9:30 a.m. EST The German charge d’affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, and the First Secretary of the German Embassy, Mr. von Strempel, called at the State Department at 8 a.m. EST. The secretary, otherwise engaged, directed that they be received by the chief of the European Division of the State Department, Mr. Ray Atherton. Mr. Atherton received the German representatives at 9:30 a.m. The German representatives handed to Mr.…