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opment and prosperity, be diminished, and
the enormous burden Of our public debt be
reduced."-CaIUin Coolidge.
GEORGE Il.
These
Days


January 3, has done little more
than appoint a general counsel.
At the moment of writing. the
committee has not yet estab-
lished its offices, set up it's full
staff. subpenaed witnesses or
held hearings.
What is more, there are more
than a thousand pages of army
and navy testimony and the
Roberts testimony is to be read,
analyzed and digested. None OF
this has been done.
A distinction must be made
between testimony and reports.
The Roberts and army and
navy reports were statements
of opinion based upon testimony.
The reports have been pub
lished. but the testimony has
been seen by few eyes.
The Roberts report was never
published in full-and il ought
to be for historic accuracy.
The testimony Of Adm. Kim
mel and Gen. Short and their
witnesses is unavailable because
all parties were sworn to sec
recy
Only the congressional COM
mittee can place this evidence
before the American people
evidence which exists and has
existed during the whole period
that the truth about Pearl Har-
Dor was withheld
THE timetable Of Pearl Har.
Il Dor ceniers about the dates
Nov. 25. 26 and u when there
were meetings and conferences
leading up 10 the presentation
of note 10 the japanese by
Secretary of State Hull, which
Japan regarded as an ultlmatum
and which in the army report
is likewise called an Hitimaturl.
Now let us see what Gen.
Jonathan NJ. Wainwright has
10 say about events. On Nov.
25 Gen. Douglas Macarthur had
a talk with Gen Wainwright in
the cotrSe Of which he said:
Jonathan. you'd better get
mp north and take command ~
that North Luzon force now
-. '"
II can go just as quickly IS I
can walk downstairs and get In
my car, told him.
oh. that much rush isn't
necessary. +" ne said wait Q
day or two. and then come
down 10 Manila 10 see me before
YOU go"
Then Macarthur said.
Jonathan. you'n probably
have until about April 10 train
those troops. u
CEN. WAINWRIGHTS COM
~ ment on this is
Macarthur believed that
nothing was going to happen be-
fore April ~ 1912. He believed
II because he had no official In
formation which would have led
him to beIieve otherwise.
He was, I'm sure, completely
In the dark about the gravity
of diplomatic messages then
being exchanged. II Macarthur
had known anything. he would
have given me-certsin 10 he
hit nrst--what he knew. His
April, 1912. prediction, was .
fair one, I thought"
DIECE that together with the
4 information that John T.
Flynn had produced in his
pamphlet, The Final Secret Of
Pearl Harbor Flynn says
On Nov. S an inter-
cepted Tokyo dispatch to Wash
ington said: signing Of any
United States-Japanese agree
ment must he completed by
Nov. 25.' And the ambassadors
were urged by the government
to save Japanese United States
relations from chaos Nov. q
another intercepted dispatch
notified Nomura that kurusu
was coming and that this was
the last hope Of the negoti-
ations.' Therefore, on Nov. 9
Roosevelt knew that the Japa-
nese were playing their last
card; that they would make no
further concession and he knew
also the very date they had set
for action-Nov. rs"
TiE story then is that kimmel,
Il Short and Macarthur were
not informed and we know from
the army report that the war
department was not informed
that the government Of the
United States issued an ulti-
matum TO Japan.
II Macarthur believed. from
such information as Washing
ton sent him, that he had until
April before war would come.
his timetable was set accordingly
and he was caught
There are those who ask why
rake over old Goals.
But these are not old Goals.
The lives of our children are
involved.
asAmericans killed at Pearl
Harbor and in the Philippines
are involved.