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...boost production, had cut its sugar cane too close to the ground in 1944. Not only does it take 18 months for the growth to come back to normal, but Cuba this year suffered its worst drought in 86 years, resulting in a sugar loss of 900,000 tons. Hawaiian and Puerto Rican production was way down...
...seems to me that the whole combined report [TIME, Sept. 10] could be replaced by a simple statement that, like the rest of the U.S., the Hawaiian commands and personnel were on weekends and binges and the Japs simply picked the ideal time for their dirty work...
...good fortune to be sitting in the A.P.'s Manila office on Dec. 7, 1941. His father was an early president of U.P., but Clark went to work for the A.P. instead, worked first in Latin America, then in the Far East (where he married a Hawaiian princess, Liliuokalani Kawananakoa). Friends in the Japanese Army tipped him off in November 1941 that it was time to get out of Shanghai...
Nevertheless, testified General Marshall, Hawaii was the best-equipped base the U.S. had. Said he: "As to Hawaii . . . it had the maximum of materiel that we possessed. ... As to Panama: if the Hawaiian state of preparation in men and materiel was 100, Panama was about 25% and the Philippines about 10% and Alaska and the Aleutians completely negligible...
Inherent Weaknesses. There was a "Joint Hawaiian Coastal Frontier Defense Plan" and an "Air Agreement" by which Army & Navy would divide responsibilities, come the attack. "The inherent weakness . . . was the fact of their [the plans] not being operative in time to meet the attack. . . . Unity of command in Washington would have been a condition precedent to unity of command in Hawaii...