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...statement to the Roberts Commission, made public for the first time, Major General Walter C. Short blamed his command's failures on the War Department and the Navy, which he accused of giving him insufficient information. ¶ A report by the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox, made soon after the disaster, was also made public. It contained the story of another sorry failure: after the attack, Army radar operators watched the Japanese planes scooting northward to their carriers; the Navy received this information two days after its futile searching to the south. ¶ Mined from deep in the layers...
Among the 275 guests were Canadian-born Mary Pickford, Walter Pidgeon, Alexander Knox, Jack Carson; British-born Greer Garson, Gary Grant, Ronald Colman; such friendly neighbors as Margaret O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Jimmy Cagney...
...ribbed the industry for "romanticizing us into a nation of scarlet-coated Mounties who are concerned impartially with getting their men and pursuing their women." He pointed out that it had taken Canadian actors to portray U.S. Presidents on the screen (Walter Huston and Raymond Massey as Lincoln, Alexander Knox as Wilson...
...days later Navy Secretary Frank Knox called Richardson in, told him the President was afraid the Japanese might take "drastic action" when Britain re-opened the Burma Road to China. In such an event, Franklin Roosevelt wanted to set up a Navy patrol which would cut off all traffic between Japan and the Americas. The Admiral was "amazed." Stubbornly he began arguing again-the fleet was not ready for such a task. If it tried, war would surely result. Loud, hearty Frank Knox was annoyed. Said he: "Richardson, we have never been ready, but we have always...
Four months later he was removed from his command. Secretary Knox explained, "Jim, the last time you were here you hurt the President's feelings...