Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Why shouldn't all of us admit our respective parts in the Pearl Harbor disaster? It was common knowledge that "we can knock out the Jap Navy in two weeks," and that complacent attitude, plus that of the must-not-offenders, plus those who fought even inadequate preparedness, gave the Japs their opportunity...
...several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged "People of America, won't you forget Pearl Harbor...
...Sara's hangar deck, the pilots' ready rooms and even the admiral's flag office had been turned into quarters for over 2,000 sailors, who tossed their leis in the water as the big carrier weighed anchor from Pearl Harbor. Soon 35 smaller escort carriers would be similarly transformed into Navy transports...
...others, Welfare Minister Chikahiko Koizumi and Education Minister Kunihiko Hashida of Tojo's Pearl Harbor Cabinet (and four unlisted officials) succeeded in killing themselves. Admiral Shigetaro Shimada told a nervous U.S. officer: "Be quiet-I don't suicide." Many surrendered voluntarily, either to U.S. officers or Japanese police. At week's end only ten were still at large...
...intelligence officers had suspected, she was California-born, Jap-blooded: one Iva Toguri, a 29-year-old graduate of the University of California. She said she had left Los Angeles "to see a sick aunt" in Japan in July 1941, was stranded in Tokyo after Pearl Harbor. She was surprised at her popularity among U.S. servicemen (who liked to listen to her program of old jukebox favorites, which were intended to make G.I.s home sick) and amazed that anyone would be lieve she had done her native U.S. wrong: "I didn't think I was doing anything dis loyal...