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We have seen in our own times how yesterday's "good guy" can become today's enemy or "terrorist", and this pattern clearly occurred in the past. Britain was neutral in the Russo-Japanese War, for example, but with a clear bias towards Japan. By 1941, Japanese warmth towards Britain had clearly evaporated. Whether there were still those in Britain who cherished a relationship with Japan right up to Pearl Harbor/Hong Kong/Singapore, I don't know. Certainly in the 1920s there was bad blood between Britain and the USA, when there was no talk of a "special relationship", probably because the dominance of one partner had not yet been fully established. Steve K. ________________________________________ >From: Richard Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: British WWI air force officer spied for Japan, files show >[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG. >Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:14:31 -0800 (PST) > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK >--------------------------- > >There has been nothing, which is almost certainly >significant. > >To be an "advisor" to a foreign government in that >period required official approval and also meant you >would be some kind of Agent. > >It almost certainly meant between 1920-22 he was >strenghtening Japan as Britain's ally in case of >trouble with America in the Far East. > >As you say there are contradictions within >Imperialism, and during this period there was real >rivalry btween Britain and America as to who was to be >top commercially in the Far East as well as infighting >as to who was the be No1 Imperialist Power. > >Japan was Britain's key ally. >There was real recriminations at the Washington >Conference, and had it failed there would have been a >naval race B + J v A, as well as a continuation of the >Japanese Alliance. > >In which case war would probably, and almost certainly >would have resulted a few years later around 1928. > >See >http://www.glasnost.de/hist/usa/1935invasion.html >for American reaction to British plans. > >Japan considered she had been done regarding >battleship numbers by the Washington Conference and >was being encouraged by Britain to build carriers on >spare hulls in order to pacify her. > >It looks like he was acting on the instructions of onw >part of British intelligence and being detected by >another. > > > >--- STEVE KACZYNSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > --------------------------- > > > > Perhaps. There are contradictions within > > imperialism. > > Has there been any mention of this in the British > > media? I certainly haven't > > seen any, and it is a rather embarrassing story > > from the establishment point of view in the UK. > > There is a lot of rubbish on > > the internet, but occasionally you get nuggets of > > info that don't make it > > into the mainstream media, for whatever reason. > > > > Steve K. > > ___________________________________ > > > > >From: Richard Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: Re: British WWI air force officer spied > > for Japan, files show > > >[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG. > > >Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 06:32:26 -0800 (PST) > > > > > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > >--------------------------- > > > > > >This may not entirely be as clear cut as it seems, > > as > > >many in Britain did not want to abandon the > > japanese > > >alliance after the 1921 Washington Treaty and were > > >concerned about britian's position in the Far East. > > > > > >--- Steve Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >wrote: > > > > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > > > --------------------------- > > > > > > > > from > > > > http://www.japantoday.com/ > > > > __________ > > > > > > > > British WWI air force officer spied for Japan, > > files > > > > show > > > > > > > > Will Hollingworth > > > > > > > > Friday, January 4, 2002 at 09:30 JST > > > > > > > > LONDON - A pillar of the British establishment > > was > > > > passing secret > > > > information about aviation design to Japan > > during > > > > the 1920s, > > > > according to secret government files > > declassified > > > > Thursday. > > > > > > > > The Foreign Office files from 1926 show that > > Lord > > > > Sempill, reputedly > > > > one of the founders of the Royal Flying Corps in > > > > World War I, passed > > > > details of British "aeronautical construction" > > to > > > > the Japanese naval > > > > attache in London, Capt Teijiro Toyoda. > > > > > > > > The records, which have remained classified > > for > > > > the last 75 years, > > > > indicate that the espionage took place roughly > > > > between 1922 and early > > > > 1926. > > > > > > > > Sempill, who died in 1965, had worked in Japan > > as > > > > part of the British > > > > air mission and served as an adviser to the > > Japanese > > > > naval air > > > > service. From the files, it would appear that > > > > Sempill was stationed > > > > in Japan between 1920 and 1922. > > > > > > > > Sempill was apparently well respected within > > > > Japanese circles and > > > > received a personal letter from the then > > Japanese > > > > Prime Minister > > > > Tomosaburo Kato (1922-1923) who thanked Sempill > > for > > > > his work with the > > > > Japanese Navy which he described as "almost > > epoch > > > > making." > > > > > > > > The files show that after his return to > > Britain, > > > > intelligence > > > > services in Britain became suspicious about his > > > > activities and > > > > obtained a warrant from the Home Secretary to > > search > > > > Sempill's home. > > > > > > > > They found correspondence between the Japanese > > > > naval attache and > > > > Sempill. In addition, there was evidence that > > > > Sempill had been paid > > > > for his services. > > > > > > > > According to the files, Sempill also tried to > > get > > > > details of a secret > > > > seaplane, codenamed Iris, which was being built > > by a > > > > British company > > > > where he also acted as an adviser. > > > > > > > > Sempill allegedly tried to get information by > > > > getting into the > > > > plane's hangar and then talking to the staff. > > > > > > > > It is unclear from the documents if any secret > > > > information was > > > > gleaned and whether it was passed on to Japan. > > > > > > > > The Foreign Office became involved in the > > Sempill > > > > case after learning > > > > that he was on the verge of being appointed > > Greece's > > > > aeronautical > > > > adviser in March 1926. > > > > > > > > The Security Services advised the Foreign > > Office > > > > and the British > > > > Embassy in Athens that Britain could not be seen > > to > > > > endorse Sempill's > > > > appointment because of his past activities. > > > > > > > > However, public prosecutors decided not to > > press > > > > charges against > > > > Sempill as the evidence against him involved > > > > photographic copies of > > > > letters written by Sempill to the attache and > > the > > > > government would > > > > have to reveal how it got this information and > > > > disclose its sources. > > > > > > > > Regarding the flying boat incident, > > prosecutors > > > > believed it would be > > > > hard to take action against Sempill as he served > > as > > > > an occasional > > > > adviser to the company, and the employees he > > talked > > > > to might not have > > > > actually considered the project as being top > > secret. > > > > > > > > Sempill, who was frustrated by what he > > regarded > > > > was a whispering > > > > campaign designed to stop him from getting the > > > > appointment in Greece, > > > > demanded to see security chiefs. > > > > > > > > At the meeting they told him that they knew of > > his > > > > links to the > > > > Japanese attache. The documents say Sempill then > > > > realized that he had > > > > been lucky to get away without any charges and > > > > stopped his complaints. > > > > > > > > The Daily Telegraph on Thursday described > > Sempill > > > > as a "pillar of the > > > > British establishment" and called him one of the > > > > founders of the > > > > Royal Flying Corps in World War I and that his > > > > father was an aide to > > > > King George V. > > > > > > > > Sempill was chairman of the Royal Aeronautical > > > > Society in 1926 and > > > > served as a member of the Royal Naval Air > > Service > > > > between 1939 and > > > > 1941, the newspaper said. > > >=== message truncated === > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! 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