Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blunt-spoken man who knows the Far East well, Tommy Hart gave up his fleet command in February 1942. Since then he has been living at his Sharon (Conn.) dairy farm, commuting to Washington for sessions of the Navy General Board. Last year he gathered evidence on the Pearl Harbor disaster for the Secretary of the Navy. A classmate of Admiral Leahy's at Annapolis (1897), a friend of Franklin Roosevelt's, Tommy Hart would be the first top-rank officer of World War II to go to Congress...
Coming back from the Oriental sea frontier of the U.S., Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, ace in World War I and now Assistant Secretary of Navy for Air, said when he stopped off at Pearl Harbor: "We can never go back to prewar status. We have to keep permanent bases in the Marianas. Those islands . . . [should be] another Pearl Harbor . . . another Pearl Harbor 3,500 miles west of this place here...
They have no feeling yet that the war is lost. But they sense uneasily that Pearl Harbor was a mistake. For that they blame the Germans, whom they have come to hate. A popular Tokyo joke tells how a Jap slapped a Bulgarian military attache. When he was informed that his victim was an "honorably ally," the Jap apologized: "So sorry, I thought he was a German." But this feeling against Germans is part of a greater hostility toward all whites. (There are still a few thousand white neutrals in Japan...
...brain center of the war against Japan moved closer to the objective last week. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz issued his 244th communique from "Advanced Headquarters, Pacific Ocean Areas," and correspondents were permitted to say that it was "several thousand miles west of Pearl Harbor." Nimitz had previously mentioned Saipan and Guam as possible sites for his vast command...
...vigorous action is concerned, nothing much happens in Great Son. The story jumps back & forth between the spirited past and the uneasy, dubious present, and nobody gets hurt. At the end, Pearl Harbor resolves almost everybody's doubts...