Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army and Navy Intelligence between July 1, 1941 and Pearl Harbor Day. It showed conclusively, if further proof were needed, that official Washington was intimately aware, long before Dec. 7, 1941, of the warlike intentions of the Jap Government. It also showed that matters were coming to a climax in Japan by the end of November and that a deadline for war had been...
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...
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...
...vain to his followers to stop fighting. Bespectacled, experienced Hubertus van Mook, the acting Governor, had his ears pinned back by his Government for deigning to confer with Soekarno. The Dutch do not want to lose the richest part of their empire, do not forget that Soekarno was chief Jap puppet in Java, and still hate to admit that Indonesia may have matured politically during the Jap occupation. They told Van Mook that he might deal with other native leaders, but never with Soekarno...
...prisoner of war, and he carries his broken neck in a leather brace because a Jap soldier hit him with a rifle butt. But Alfred C. Oliver is also a chaplain. Last week, speaking at a Cincinnati bond drive, Colonel Oliver said of the Japs: "These inhuman men starve you to death and work you to death and beat you unmercifully while they are doing...