If the Japanese had managed to fight delaying actions and lengthened the war till 1947 (let's say atomic bombs were not invented), would the American population have become so war weary that they would accept a negotiated peace with Japan?

I was born in 1931 and was listening to the radio on 7 Dec 1941. My father was career Navy and was at Pearl Harbor on that fateful morning. I can still remember the announcer coming on and saying, “We interrupt this program for the following announcement ‘President Roosevelt said in a statement today that the Japanese have attacked Pearl Harbor from the air’”. There was follow up throughout the day. My mother and I spent the rest of the day glued to the radio.

There was no war weariness in 1945 and I doubt there would have been in 1947. There was a determination to win the war no matter what as the Pearl Harbor attack was a shock that really pissed off the American people.

In hindsight, a negotiated peace might have been preferable as the final terms of the peace treaty were not that different from what it is believed that the Japanese would have agreed to prior to the actual end of hostilities. Peace feelers from the Japanese had been made through the Vatican, Moscow, Stockholm and Allen Dulles in Switzerland from various Japanese interests. (1) (2)

(1) Memoranda for the President: Japanese Feelers - Central Intelligence Agency released 22 Sep 93

(2) Memory from several books on WWII 

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