Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the Army's War Plans Division in 1941, to accept full blame for one of Pearl Harbor's most egregious errors. On Nov. 27, a sharp warning of impending hostilities had gone out from General Marshall to Lieut. General Walter C. Short in Hawaii. On Nov. 28, General Short replied that he had ordered an alert against sabotage-which was like saying he had a butterfly net ready for a tiger. Yet his reply was never challenged by Washington...
Explained General Gerow: he thought the Short message was an answer to other communications. Said he: "If there is any responsibility in the War Department for failure ... I accept that responsibility...
Then up stepped General Marshall himself to take part of the blame. He didn't recall seeing the Short message; he should have. "That was my opportunity to intervene and I didn't take it," he confessed. "Just why, I do not know...
Fourteen Points. The week's testimony also shed light on the warning that came too late-the message Walter Short received on Dec. 7 at 2:58 p.m. Hawaiian time, informing him that the Japs were...
Instead of 20 minutes, the Signal Corps took eight hours and 28 minutes to get the message to Short (by commercial cable instead of Army radio). Nobody had bothered to check up on the Signal Corps; the General Staff took for granted that the message was going full speed ahead...