Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...astonishing confusion of orders and messages, and differences of opinion at the top which had hamstrung action. (Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, was ready to appease Japan with a $2 billion loan and "most favored nation" status...
...fact that high officials knew an attack was coming and the more disturbing fact that their conclusions were not turned over to the right people. (Said Franklin Roosevelt on Dec. 6: "This means war," but at Pearl Harbor Kimmel and Short had no inkling of their Commander's thoughts...
Today's sole survivor of this scene on Dec. 6, 1941 had been no more than part of the background. But he had listened carefully. Last week, as Commander Schulz, soon to become executive officer of the battleship Indiana, he told the story to the Pearl Harbor Committee...
They began discussing the probable point of attack. Hopkins guessed Indo-China. Neither mentioned Pearl Harbor; neither discussed the time the war might begin...
...plan was as comprehensive as the Navy could make it. If it was adopted, the Pacific would become a filigree of 22 bases, stretching from Hawaii to the China Seas, from the barren Aleutians to paradisiac Samoa. Pearl Harbor would continue to dominate the military map. But the U.S. armored highway across the Pacific, which once faded out a thousand miles beyond Pearl, would henceforth extend to Guam and Saipan...