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...Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short (TIME, Sept. 6) left me open-mouthed in amazement...
...second anniversary of Pearl Harbor, will presumably be the final date on which the Army & Navy may file charges against Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short, the commanding officers on whom was placed official responsibility for that disastrous defeat...
Unless they have been arraigned by then, they will be protected by Army & Navy statutes of limitation, which require that a prosecution be begun within two years after the offense. "Dereliction of duty" was the cause cited when Kimmel and Short were removed from command, but no formal charges were made, and the War and Navy Departments said that the officers would not be tried until some future time, when "the public interest and safety" would permit...
Both men voluntarily retired (at $6,000 a year) 18 months ago, Kimmel to work for Manhattan consulting engineers doing Navy jobs, Short to head the traffic department of Ford Motor Co.'s Dallas plant. Many officers and civilians, convinced that the two have already shouldered censure that should have been visited widely upon both services, hope the cases are being allowed to die quietly...
...Suggesting that "when General Short and Admiral Kimmel come up for court-martial, I'm in favor of holding a shooting match...