Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Short obediently resolved to get along. His and Kimmel's relations were cordial-despite a subsequent Collier's article by President (then Senator) Harry Truman, which represented the two as scarcely speaking...
...Apparently Short was afraid that if he went much beyond social contacts and really got down to business with the Navy to get what he had a right to know in order to do his job, he would give offense to the Navy and lose the good will of the Navy which he was charged with securing...
...Navy, which said that it would conduct distance reconnaissance, failed to inform Short that it was doing no such thing. Short never bothered to check...
...Navy (and Washington) failed to inform Short when, "on or about Nov. 25," intelligence sources reported the presence in the Marshall Islands of a large part of the Jap fleet. The Navy failed to inform Short that it had sunk a Jap submarine in outer Pearl Harbor at about 6:30 a.m. on Dec. 7-a sure sign that attack was imminent...
...allowed to tap telephone wires and did. On Dec. 5 agents overheard an "apparently meaningless and therefore highly suspicious" telephone message from a Japanese newspaper woman to Tokyo. The FBI passed the message on to Military Intelligence, which submitted it to General Short at 6 o'clock on Dec. 6. "As Short was unable to decipher the meaning," said the Board, "he did nothing about it and went on to a party...