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When the Roberts Report came out, the Tribune commented thus: "Secretary Knox was no less responsible for the catastrophe than was Admiral Kimmel. . . . His continued presence in the Secretary's office is a most disturbing evidence that Washington is not devoted, with singleness of purpose, to winning...
Having been officially pronounced responsible for the disaster of Pearl Harbor, Rear Admiral Husband Kimmel and Major General Walter C. Short asked Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of War Stimson to let them retire from their country's service. If the President, on the secretaries' recommendation, said yes, each would get a life pension of $6,000 a year. If he decided instead to dismiss them outright, the.y would have to be vindicated by a court-martial before they could claim their retirement pay. Both the Army and the Navy hoped that their request would...
...November 24, 1941, the Chief of Naval Operations sent a message to Admiral Kimmel in which he stated that in the opinion of the Navy Department, a surprise aggressive movement ... by the Japanese . . . was a possibility...
...October 16, 1941, the Commanding General, Hawaiian Department [Short], and the Commander in Chief of the Fleet [Kimmel], were advised by the War and Navy Departments of the changes in the Japanese Cabinet, and of the possibility of an attack by Japan on Great Britain and the United States...
...Commanding General [Short], the Commander in Chief of the Fleet [Kimmel] and their principal staff officers considered the possibility of air raids. Without exception they believed that the chances of such a raid while the Pacific Fleet was based upon Pearl Harbor was practically...