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portant in the cross-examination oil
Gen. Miles, who has been witness
Gen. Short cited the two pieces OF
evidence, neither previously made
public, after saying, in response tc
inSistent questions by Samuel H
Kaufman, associate committee coun-
sci, that he thought Washington
was wholly responsible" for failure
Of the Hawaiian command to pre-
pare for the Japanese attack.
Based on Kroner Testimony.
Gen. Shorts charge that two in
teligence officers who made the
final estimates of the world mill
tary situation in November of 1941
did not have the Japanese inter-
cepts was based on the testimony
Brig. Gen. Hayes A. Kroner, given
in September, 1914, before Col Car
ter w. Clarke, who made one of the
several secret Pearl Harbor investi-
cations. Also mentioned in this
testimony was Brig. Gen. Thomas
j. Belts, who helped prepare these
estimates of probable military de-
velQpments.
Gen. Short explained he was
making this revelation to show why
he did not figure that Japan was
about to attack Hawaii. After
reading this secret testimony, Gen.
Short observed:
These two officers (Kroner and
Belts were denied access to magic
and for that reason did not con-
slider Japan capable of making the
attack and did not believe she would
do so. I had even less information
than Gen. Kroner"
1t has been testified earlier thai
the intercepted japanese message.
were shown only to a limited grour
Iof high-ranking officials in the War
Navy and State Departments anc
the White House. They were carried
In locked pouches, brought back aftel
having been read and all except 6
file copy destroyed, according tt
the earlier testimony.
| No knowledge Whatever.
Gen. Short quoted from testimony
which Gen. Kroner gave Col. Clarke
as follows:
Col Clarke: Did you have access
to source of information which
we know as top secret and the Brit.
ish known as most secret?'
Gen. Kroner: Meaning commu.
nicationS information?'
Col. Clarke: Signal intelligence
Gen. Kroner: None whatever
"Col. Clark: You mean you didn'
get it or your branch didn't get it?
Gen. Kroner: I personally Al
chief OF the branch did not get 1t
was aware that something which
later turned out to be of this nature
existed. But 1 was given to under.
stand, particularly by Col. Brattor
and Col. Pettigrew, who sometime.
handled the matter for Col. Bratton
that he received information from
Col. Minkler, whom I knew to be il
the Signal Corps, which perhaps hae
to do with Japanese troop move.
ments, which he by long custom ane
by Gen. Miles special desire, was t.
handle himself directly with Gen
Miles,"
Headed Far East Section.
Col. Rufus Bratton was chief O
the divisions Far Eastern section
Gen. Miles already has testified tina
the magic" or decided Japanes,
information, was not sent to Hawaii
Before quoting the testimony be
fore Col Clarke, Gen. Short SAT-
to the committee:
why did I not estimate tina
Japan was about to attack Hawaii
Hawaii was unmentioned as a plac
of probable attack in the informa
ton and intelligence sent me il
November and early December
1941."
The colloquy between Col. Clark
and Gen. Kroner continued, as rea,
| by Gen. Snort.
Col Clarke: TN any estimat
from the time you took over tn
intelligence group up to and in
Guiding Pearl Harbor, was Their
ever any prediction or forecas
made of a possible attack on Pear
Harbor?'
Gen. Kroner: None to m,
knowledge. I have in mind tn
last estimate that was made befor
Pearl Harbor, which was an esti
mate covering future period from
December l to some time in 1922
Holds Marshall at Fault.
Earlier, Gen. Short told the com
mittee that Gen. George c. Marshall
then Chief of Staff, should have or
dered a general alert in the fal
of 1Qd1 or sI1Dplied him with enough