From: MaryHaas@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 11 1999 - 06:47:44 PDT
Cara, Many people ask what if questions. However, they are not really appropriate for historians. You see historians are seeking the truth of what did happen and no one can predict the future nor is the historian attempting to do so. Today we all laugh at Chamberlain and his announcement that Hitler assured him that he had made his last claim on the territory of another nation. If something precedes an event it may be a causative agent but not necessarily. Give all sorts of other events in between notice the strongest reason you were given referred to what the Nazi leaders in Germany were doing not what the Japanese were doing. Mary E. Haas