It's "Skull and Bones", not "Skull and Crossbones".

And who needs a theory about Winston Churchill manipulating events in the Pacific to get the USA in the war sooner? FDR wanted the USA in the war almost as much as Churchill did, and FDR did everything in his power to provoke the Japanese into attacking America first...and succeeded admirably. He backed them into an economic corner where they were guaranteed to attack America first. So blame him for Pearl Harbour if you want someone on the Allied side to blame and forget about Churchill... ;-)

Anyone else might have done something similar in his place, by the way, given the general situation internationally in 1941. He was very concerned that Germany might win the war if the USA didn't get involved, and that was a legitimate concern. The way to get the USA involved was simple: get Japan to attack the USA. That was just about the only way that would work, from the point of view of public relations and political realities in the USA at the time. Ordinary people in the USA did not want to go to war. Most congressmen did not want to go to war. They had to get damn mad about something first. For that to happen, some foreigners had to launch a bloody and totally "unexpected" and apparently unprovoked attack on American soil.

Sound familiar? ;-)   Thus do the puppetmasters pull the strings.