>>5705028>>5705041>>5731861>>5735356>>5735803>The VAMPIRE SORCERYAn investment banker wrote NSC-68 but here is also another example of the dreaded vampire sorcery, this time regarding the role of Thomas Lamont at JP Morgan. This is an extract from House Of Morgan, a nonfictional historical account of the bank. I have this book I admit I have not read all of it but I know a few excerpts. What is most frightening about the vampire sorcerors is how you have probably never heard of any of them
>tldr; it is that BANZAI bit from Call Of Duty: World At War(...)
In mid-1931, while the West was distracted by the Credit Anstalt failure and the sterling crisis, the Kwantung army set in motion a plot to seize Mukden and other Manchurian towns. On September 18, it launched a surprise raid against Chinese barracks in Mukden; by the next day, the city had fallen to the Japanese. As a pretext for this aggression, the Japanese military manufactured stories of Chinese assaults against the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway—stories that were later exposed as fraudulent or exaggerated. Emboldened by popular support in Japan, the military flouted civilian officials, such as Inouye and Foreign Minister Kijuro Shidehara, who opposed the use of force. Japan’s Foreign Office was afraid that if it tried to rein in the Kwantung Army, it might face an armed revolt in the ranks. As fifteen thousand Japanese troops swarmed across Manchuria, diplomats lamely said that the moves were temporary and that the troops would be evacuated shortly.
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Stunned by the Mukden raid, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson swiftly protested to Japan, and Hoover later called it “an act of rank aggression.” Financial markets clamored for an explanation. As finance minister, the proud, dignified Inouye had to issue a statement. He was in a precarious spot, for he had spearheaded cabinet opposition to reinforcing troops in Manchuria. He was also identified with demands for cuts in the defense budget, which earned him the lasting enmity of the military (much as Dr. Hjalmar Schacht’s faith in old-fashioned balanced budgets would finally doom him with the Nazis).
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