Word: harborers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boards or courts of inquiry have produced 40 volumes of printed matter on the Pearl Harbor disaster of Dec. 7, 1941. For a crisp account of the event, its causes and consequences, laymen may put their trust in frosty Captain Morison, U.S.N.R. (on inactive duty). The Rising Sun in the Pacific is a clear record of a complex of failures...
Surprising Departure. "The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor," says Captain Morison, "far from being a 'strategic necessity' as the Japanese claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure...
...Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
...streets. On the silent waterfront stands the old East India warehouse, once filled with the sharp scents of the spice trade. Hoorn had been made useless when the North Sea Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East Indies, who had pushed into Java to found an empire. Graven on the base of the monument, for Dutchmen to read, is his terse motto: "Desespereert niet" (Do not despair...
...live by His spiritual values, the knowledge and infinite complexity of science are channeled by a wisdom beyond human capability . . . Then science gives us the material strength to protect our spiritual values." But Lindbergh's new religion is almost as nationalist as his old pre-Pearl Harbor politics: "For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is a doctrine of death . . . Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership...