Show Cut Off Japanese Then Pearl Harbor The anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor points up a fact little appreciated by THE JAPANESE attack on resulted from economic pressure against Japan by the United Britain and That pressure was morally of because ot Japanese military But the final straw which convinced Japan's military leadership she must attack was the decision of the three allied nations to shut off the flow of oil from the Dutch East Indies to WITHOUT that Japan would have been forced to withdraw her armies from China and end her economic This she was unwilling to Defeat for Japan came when supplies were cut off by U.S. And postwar years have shown with oil the Japanese are capable of remarkable economic time without military THE SUPPLY of energy remains as critical to industrial nations today as it was 33 years If a new Middle East or punitive Arab cuts off vital oil supplies to powerful industrial countries there's the same possibility of military taken in what will be considered the national as there was in |