The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War

by James D. Bradley

This was the first time Kaneko had heard anyone enunciate the concept of a “Japanese Monroe Doctrine.”

Japan’s founding fathers cannot be faulted if they believed that Roosevelt was powerful enough to control American policy even as he kept Congress in the dark.

Taft was secretly negotiating agreements with Japan not discovered until years later.

The Taft-Katsura secret treaty sentenced Koreans to Japanese subjugation for forty-five tortuous years.

For most of human history, China was the most populated, wealthiest, and most sophisticated country on earth.

The Chinese invented movable type four hundred years before Johannes Gutenberg was born.

The sums were so enormous that Queen Victoria stands as history’s largest drug dealer.

California’s second constitution, ratified in 1879, prohibited companies from employing “directly or indirectly, in any capacity, any Chinese or Mongolian”; prohibited the employ of Chinese “on any state, county, municipal, or other public work, except in punishment for crime”;

Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “No greater calamity could now befall the United States than to have the Pacific slope fill up with a Mongolian population.”

Theodore Roosevelt deemed the Chinese a “race-foe” and called upon the United States to maintain “race-selfishness” to exclude “the dangerous alien who would be ruinous to the white race.”25

Roosevelt signed into law the most draconian anti-Chinese piece of legislation in U.S. history,

FDR was heir to the huge Delano opium fortune.

Americans remember the exact date of Pearl Harbor, but not the day Theodore Roosevelt gave Japan the keys to the kingdom.

“all of the world achievements worth remembering are to be credited to the people of European descent… the intrusive people having either exterminated or driven out the conquered peoples.” Roosevelt termed this salutary process “ethnic conquest.”29

Roosevelt would be dead fifteen years later, while Kaneko would live to hear Franklin Roosevelt criticize Japan for doing what Theodore Roosevelt had recommended.30

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”1 —MARK TWAIN

(British prime minister Winston Churchill called the New China dream the “Great American illusion.”)

you might see an American drone. The American president controls this lethal program within the executive branch; it’s a private air force that’s operated with little congressional oversight.