Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PEARL HARBOR WITNESS VANISHES
Perhaps the whole story of Pearl Harbor would now be told in public. The Congressional investigation, that had apparently been headed for the shoals of political recrimination, had now gone about on a steady course toward full and complete inquiry...
...officers who were on the scene at the time, i.e., Admiral Kimmel and General Short, followed by Admiral James Otto Richardson, stubborn prewar advocate of the theory that the Japs would be hard to beat, who was succeeded by the more optimistic Admiral Kimmel ten months before Pearl Harbor...
Others who would help piece the story together: General George Marshall, Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the war plans division; Admiral Harold R. Stark, then Chief of Naval Operations; Admiral William F. Halsey, who was leading a task force toward Pearl Harbor when the Japs struck; Grace Tully, personal secretary to Franklin Roosevelt and guardian of his personal papers; Secretaries Hull, Welles and Grew and Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who in his 1944 campaign had abjured all reference to the cracking of the Jap code, on the suggestion of the U.S. Army...
...Tsingtao has good claims to being the fastest growing city in China. In 1898, when the Ger mans grabbed it, it was an insignificant fishing village; today its 800,000 population is well housed in structures which sprawl over the hills above the best natural harbor in China. Scenically it is beautiful. Architecturally it is wholly un inspiring: late igth Century German colonial, plus nondescript modern Japanese and Chinese...