Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to John F. Walther (TIME, June 5) was a masterful bit of reticence and understatement. As a ten-year cover-to-cover reader, I can recall without referring to your files that you did your very best to depict the seriousness of the international situation not only after Pearl Harbor and before Bataan. You outlined with a dark editorial pencil the sinister threat of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis to the democracies in general and the U.S. in particular long before Pearl Harbor...
...Lyttelton nodded approvingly. When he got up to make his speech extolling U.S.-British cooperation, he read from his Cabinet-approved little slips of blue paper until he came to an incidental mention of the word "Japan." Then he added extemporaneously: "Japan was provoked into attacking the Americans at Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty on history ever to say that America was forced into the war. Everyone knows where American sympathies were. It is incorrect to say that America was ever truly neutral even before America came into...
...mouth were much in evidence. As the context of his words showed and as his explanation made plain, he was trying to pay the U.S. a strong compliment. Because of the U.S. opposition to aggression, he might have worded his praise, the U.S. made plain to Japan long before Pearl Harbor that she must give up her plans of Asiatic domination or fight. The U.S. was aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei was on the air, cackling : "The real cause of the war in Greater...
...strategists. For more than two years critics of the Roosevelt Administration have insisted that the President must have known his policy toward Japan would lead to war; and that therefore he had no excuse either for his campaign statements that his policy meant peace or for the unpreparedness at Pearl Harbor. Minister Lyttelton's remarks paraphrased the basis for such a charge...
...Pearl Harbor, and Delos Emmons' ability as a crack administrative officer, abruptly changed the course of his career. General Emmons was sent to take over the Hawaiian Department from Lieut. General Walter Short, who was retired to await court-martial (and is still waiting). In a commendably short time Emmons reorganized the Islands' disorganized defenses, built innumerable airfields, carried out the Army's share of rebuilding Pearl Harbor as the U.S.'s anchor bastion in the Pacific Ocean...