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Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, nettled at the Navy's dillydallying decision to delay until 1945 his trial for the Pearl Harbor disaster,* wrote a letter to Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, declared the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, requested a "trial by court-martial at the earliest practicable date...
...newsy New York Times gave its story of Pentecost Mass a busy headline: HOLY GHOST HAILED AS SPIRIT OF LOVE. *Jointly accused with Admiral Kimmel is Major General Walter C. Short. Both are now on ihe voluntary retired list, drawing $6,000 annual pension...
...Congress last week set ahead for six months, until June 1944, the legal deadline for bringing to trial Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short. Thus the smoldering subject of the blame for Pearl Harbor was neatly maneuvered into the middle of next year's Presidential campaign...
...Even if Kimmel and Short do not stand trial in June, the Administration will. Roared Missouri's enraged Senator Bennett Champ Clark: "I'm going to keep after them. Stimson and Knox want no part of a court-martial for Kimmel and Short ... in fact the Administration as a whole wishes to forget the whole thing. If the Administration has any idea that I will forget about this thing it is plain crazy...
...TIME might have said that "almost all" (instead of "many") officers think Kimmel and Short's immediate dismissal was both just and sufficient punishment. It may well be that future historians will blame Pearl Harbor less on the luckless commanders than on national overoptimism, complacency, isolationist psychology and the custom of getting tight on Saturday night...