Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later that afternoon, President Franklin Roosevelt said at his press conference that he had merely been brushing up on his geography; he and the Admirals had been looking at maps. The real story of the meeting was never told until Admiral Richardson told it last week before the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee...
...Admiral Richardson, talking across the gadget-littered desk, did not respond to the President's ebullience. He was in tensely worried ; he had been brooding for months over the crowded anchorage at Pearl Harbor, the fleet's lack of manpower, ammunition, shore defenses, a proper supply train. Neither the Navy nor the nation, he had concluded, was ready...
Testimony developed at the hearing, from captured Jap documents, indicated that the attack on Pearl Harbor was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto as far back as January 1941. The actual date for the attack (Dec. 8, Japanese time) had been fixed...
Republican Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart caused a slight flurry when he told newsmen that the cruiser Boise, en route to Manila from Pearl Harbor, had sighted a Jap task force but had not communicated its news because the skipper had been told to observe radio silence-and saw no reason for breaking the orders...
...Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, soon to be Chief of Army Air Forces, stressed the importance of air power in the "airpower age." Said General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower: "Unless we have unity of direction in Washington through the years of peace that lie ahead we may enter another . . . Pearl Harbor...