Word: attacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honolulu marked her re-emergence as a pleasant and peaceful subtropical crossroads last week. For the first time since the "blitz day" attack on Pearl Harbor, citizens celebrated Aloha Week, the Hawaiian equivalent of "pioneer days" as observed in the continental...
...People Free." Churchill's keen tactical sense led him toward a new Tory position last week. Abandoning sniping tactics, he opened up a full-scale attack on the principle of socialist planning and controls. For the first time in months the House of Commons heard an all-out defense of free enterprise. Said Churchill...
...ranked Notre Dame couldn't get its running attack going against Navy, but didn't need to; its two pass-pitching quarterbacks-Johnny Lujack and Frank Tripucka-completed 18 passes in 27 attempts, sank the Middies...
...explanation of the Pearl Harbor fiasco will strike most readers as being naive or evasive. He ignores the evidence of Annapolis Classmate Kimmel's laxness (borne out by one of the photographs in Halsey's book, TIME, Oct. 27), writes: "Who, then, is to blame? . . . The attack succeeded because Admiral Kimmel and General Short could not give Pearl Harbor adequate protection. They could not give it because they did not have it to give. . . . The blame for Pearl Harbor rests squarely on the American people and nowhere else...
Furious as he was with Japanese duplicity, Halsey was quite prepared to adopt Pearl Harbor tactics himself. Even before he knew of the Japanese attack, he had given orders to "sink any shipping sighted, shoot down any plane encountered." Protested his operations officer: "Goddammit, Admiral, you can't start a private war of your own! Who's going to take the responsibility?" Said Halsey: "I'll take it! If anything gets in my way, we'll shoot first and argue afterwards...