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...bring about a permanent split in the Japanese people, with the Hawaiian group becoming a sort of separate race," said Withington. "They have always been very clannish, and are the only Orientals in Hawaii who don't mix with the others, and breaking off with the home country won't make them mingle any more. Of course, the tremendous power of ancestor worship may work against this, but I think that the new patriotism is stronger...
...Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. . . ." He spoke of the Japanese treachery; then, his voice heavy, almost thick: "The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to the American naval and military forces . . . very many American lives have been lost...
...Japs came in from the southeast over Diamond Head. They could have been U.S. planes shuttling westward from San Diego. Civilians' estimates of their numbers ranged from 50 to 150. They whined over Waikiki, over the candy-pink bulk of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Some were (it was reported) big four-motored jobs, some dive-bombers, some pursuits. All that they met as they came in was a tiny private plane in which Lawyer Ray Buduick was out for a Sunday morning ride. They riddled the lawyer's plane with machine-gun bullets, but the lawyer succeeded in making...
...first 36 hours of war, no actual sinkings of U.S. merchant ships were reported; though at least one SOS call was heard (700 miles from San Francisco) and some ships have undoubtedly been sunk. Insurance rates on U.S. vessels zoomed; the war risk rate to the Hawaiian Islands was 5? per $100 last week, $4 at this week's beginning...
...Navy officers in Honolulu chuckled mightily last week over a Japanese submarine's periscope upped furtively in Hawaiian waters. U.S. naval units had spotted the spying craft, could have sunk it at will. Consensus: The sub saw nothing of value...