The bringing about of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on
7 December 1941 followed the same pattern. The Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) headed by Bernard Baruch was contemplating a plan
of provocation, which was to lead to a Japanese attack on the United
States. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Defense, Harry Stimson, wrote in his
diary: “We stand before the difficult question of which acts of
diplomacy would ensure Japan to take the blame and the first step.”
On 25 July 1941, Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United
States, decided on a trade embargo, refused Japan access to the
Panama Canal and assisted China in its war against Japan. This was
revealed by George Morgenstern in his book “Pearl Harbor: The Story
of the Secret War” (Costa Mesa, 1991). In July 1941, Roosevelt also
blocked all oil deliveries to Japan. The American blockade was an
outright declaration of war (Eric D. Butler, “The Red Pattern of World
Conquest”, Melbourne, 1985, p. 52).

The US Secretary of State, the freemason Dean Acheson, was given
the mission of inducing the so-called freeze of Japanese trade, which
would inevitably have defeated the country. If Japan did not act, war
would follow, the blame would be put on Japan and the result would
be defeat and a second class status as well.
Admiral Robert A. Theobold wrote in his book “The Final Secret of
Pearl Harbor” (Devin-Adair, 1954) that one person alone was responsible for this disaster – the President of the United States, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, a freemason of the 32 nd degree of the Scottish Rite.
Roosevelt was initiated as a freemason on 11 October 1911 in the
Holland Lodge No. 8 in New York (John Hamill, Robert Gilbert, “Freemasonry: A Celebration of the Craft”, London, 1998, p. 241). He had
long been a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Holy Shrine
Lodge as well as the Architect Lodge No. 519. He was further a grand
master of the Grand Lodge Georgia in New York and in the lodge Tall
Cedars of Lebanon of North America (Kurt Fervers, “Die Parolen der
Hochgrade: Freimaurerpolitik um die beiden Weltkriege” / “The
Passwords of the High Degrees”, Berlin, 1942, p. 143). He became an
honorary member of the Stansburg Lodge No. 24 in Washington, D.C.

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Four days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had
intercepted and deciphered Japanese messages about the decision to
go to war against the United States and Great Britain. Information
about Pearl Harbor reached Roosevelt as well, but he did not act. The
retired Colonel John W. Carrothers stated in The San Francisco
Chronicle on 11 December 1981 that the United States had an
excellent spy network in Japan, consisting of Koreans who despised
the Japanese. Complete information about the intended attack was
available to Roosevelt 48 hours in advance. Even the Soviet
government warned the United States against the planned attack by
Japan. The US commander in Hawaii was not informed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was, among other lodges, a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Holy Shrine.
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