Word: pearl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor Committee, which few lawyers regard as a possible stepping-stone to fame, finally found a new counsel, decided to adjourn for ten days so that he could catch up with the estimated 1,500,000 words of testimony and records before questioning Admiral Kinimel and General Short...
...Ellis M. Zacharias, a Navy captain with a flair for the unorthodox, was one of the first skippers to go after the Japs, ended up as an intelligence officer, making highly effective propaganda broadcasts in near-perfect Japanese. Last week he showed up in a particularly unorthodox light-the Pearl Harbor Committee discovered that here was one Navy man who had been 100% right about the time and place of the attack...
...memorandum was placed in evidence showing that Captain Zacharias had personally warned Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in the summer of 1941, that the Japs would start war with a sneak air raid on Pearl Harbor on a weekend-"probably Sunday morning...
These facts, set down in official memoranda by former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (who was at the Atlantic Charter meeting), were introduced last week into the records of the Pearl Harbor investigation. They were of little value to Republicans, who had hoped to unearth some evidence that the late President had sought a way to wangle the U.S. into war. Cracked one Senator: "About the only thing this investigation has shown is how isolationist Franklin Roosevelt really...
...engaged in effective propaganda for Burmese independence. Just before Pearl Harbor Londoners flocked to hear him twit British imperialism. When he was reminded of the Japanese menace, U Saw made a restrained statement of loyalty to the Crown: "The people of Burma are rather inclined to rely on the devil they know than on the devil they don't." Then he suavely added: "It is not for me to decide [between Britons and Japs] the degree of their devilment." On his way home U Saw perhaps got as far as Cairo. Then no more was heard...