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 \chapter{Foreword}
 
 \chapterauthor{Gilles PERRAULT}
@@ -3102,8 +3105,7 @@ And that was Pearl Harbor.
 A deluge of bombs and torpedoes fell on December 7, 1941 on a sleeping base. At the time, it killed more than two thousand people, then lit a fire in the Pacific that caused millions, and ended with a double nuclear fire.
 
 If we stick to a traditional view, these deaths would be due less to capitalism than to feudalism, or even to primitive savagery.
-It was samurai Japan, using modern industry only as a means to serve a centuries-old appetite for domination, that would have treacherously attacked Pearl Harbor\footnote{cf. F. Delpla, \emph{Les nouveaux mystères de Pearl Harbor} (The new mysteries of Pearl Harbor), unpublished. Extracts on the Internet: \url{http://www.amgot.org/fr.hist.htm}.
-Dead link. For an archived copy of what might be the text see appendix \vref{delpla2004}.}.
+It was samurai Japan, using modern industry only as a means to serve a centuries-old appetite for domination, that would have treacherously attacked Pearl Harbor\footnote{cf. F. Delpla, \emph{Les nouveaux mystères de Pearl Harbor} (The new mysteries of Pearl Harbor), unpublished. Extracts on the Internet: \url{http://www.amgot.org/fr.hist.htm}\rfootnotemark.}\rfootnotetext{Dead link. For an archived copy of what might be the text see appendix \vref{delpla2004}.}.
 
 A closer analysis of the phenomenon obliges, as noted above, to return to the birth, in the nineteenth century, of Japanese imperialism, and its late insertion into the game of powers.
 The gifted student not only assimilated the technical lessons of capitalism but also, and also quickly, its geopolitical lessons.