Read the following excerpt from President Roosevelt's speech to Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor:
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 – a date which will live in
infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and
deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire
of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the
solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its
government and its emperor looking toward the
maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
What was Roosevelt's likely motive for using the phrase "at the solicitation of
Japan"?
No