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_softlite t1_iy1q9ss wrote on November 28, 2022 at 2:03 AM

Reply to comment by Red_dragon_052 in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

The US was more concerned with protecting their interests in the pacific (namely the Philippines) than any humanitarian concern for China—though certainly they opposed this.