Hordern, Nick Loyalty
Australians, Japanese and Espionage on the eve of the Pacific War

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English text. 350 pages.

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In the years before Pearl Harbor, Australian authorities were convinced that a large number of Japanese diplomats and businesspeople were engaged in espionage and that many of their Australian partners were helping them. Certainly, some Japanese were eagerly collecting publicly available information, and some Australians were helping them but there is no evidence that they actually stole military secrets. The authorities targeted Australians they considered a security risk, basing their decisions on sanctions on subjective judgements about people's loyalty. Even after the war ended, such suspicions about loyalty did not disappear, and the belief that prominent Australians had acted as collaborators and welcomed a Japanese invasion persisted for decades. Based on previously unexamined evidence, this book argues that these beliefs arose from an unfounded conspiracy theory.

Author: Hordern, Nick
Title: Loyalty
Details: English text. 350 pages.
State: new
Subtitle: Australians, Japanese and Espionage on the eve of the Pacific War