Word: alertly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report of Navy Secretary Frank Knox (TIME, Dec. 22) had been reassuring in the frankness of its admission that the U.S. forces in Honolulu were "not on the alert." Next President Roosevelt appointed a five-man board to investigate the Pearl Harbor debacle. To head the board he named Owen Josephus Roberts, 66, Associate Supreme Court Justice, last survivor of the Old Court, a broad-shouldered, broad-gauge jurist who first won national fame by his Teapot Dome prosecution...
...United States Services were not on the alert against the surprise air attack on Hawaii. This fact calls for a formal investigation which will be initiated immediately by the President....We are all entitled to know it if: a) there was any error of judgment which contributed to the surprise, b) if there was any dereliction of duty prior to the attack...
Unanswered Questions. Still unanswered was the question of how the defending forces were caught napping. Said Frank Knox: "The air attack simply took us by surprise. We weren't on air alert." His implication was plain: Pearl Harbor looked for attacks, if any, from the sea alone...
...Philippines were ready. For days before the war began, the guns had been manned and the planes had stood alert. The Philippines were still ready. After a week of heavy bombing, of fierce scraps on Luzon beachheads, of dogfights among black bursts of ack-ack, of desperate aerial assaults to hold Japanese ships off the coast, the Philippines stood fast...
...stations on the Atlantic seaboard had to grapple with a scare report (see p. 61). In a sweat of swift thinking ("hardest thing I ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...