FACTS ABOUT PEARL HARBOR
Facts About Pearl Harbor SENSATIONAL disclosures that the late President Roosevelt and his aides knew of the impending Japanese break 15 hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, and...
...Later, however, Dewey received another letter from Marshall which he was given permission to read and keep...
...The political impact of such a charge, if supported by the evidence of the code-cracking, would have been terrific, and might well have landed Dewey in the White House," Chamberlain writes...
...7. Gen...
...But the Japanese certainly knew their own plans...
...The article, written by John Chamberlain, an editor of Life, whose articles have appeared in The Progressive, confirms many an allegation previously made by John T. Flynn and other publicists, including several whose revelations have appeared in The Progressive...
...I refer you to Gen...
...More than 15 hours before Pearl Harbor Roosevelt and the members of the Washington high command knew that the Japanese envoys were going to break with the U. S. the next day...
...In substance," Chamberlain says, "the letter told Dewey what he already knew, that we had cracked the Japanese 'ultra' code...
...The United States, Chamberlain reports, had cracked the Japanese "ultra" code "some time prior to Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt and his advisers knew what the Japanese were going to do well in advance of the overt rupture of relations...
...George Marshall and Admiral Harold Stark, in charge of the Army and Navy respectively, warned Roosevelt that "they were not ready with the physical means to back up any ultimatum or quasi-ultimatum to the Japanese, the President and Secretary of State Cordell Hull "still insisted on sending the Nov...
...Chamberlain wonders why Gen...
...the only thing they did not know was the precise point of military attack . .." Roosevelt, "working both sides of the street," was assuring the nation of peaceful purpose while at the same time he was "tightening the screws on Japan" and "at least complaisant about welcoming attack," Chamberlain writes...
...6 or the morning of Dec...
...ALTHOUGH Gen...
...But it was of highest importance that the Japanese be kept from realizing it...
...Marshall for the text of it," he told newsmen...
...7, 1941, and that Gov...
...Although Marshall was silent this week, it appeared certain that the contents of the letter would become public property when the special Congressional committee launches its investigation into the Pearl Harbor disaster...
...Dewey returned the letter unread...
...26 note that Japan took for an ultimatum...
...The first paragraph asked Dewey not to read further unless he would keep the letter's contents secret...
...If the Japanese had intercepted a Marshall phone call, they had only one alternative to carrying through with their attack, and that was the alternative of calling it off...
...Frightened by the prospect that Dewey might tell what he knew, Gen...
...Short and Admiral Kimmel, in Hawaii, were not notified of the Japanese intentions on the evening of Dec...
...24 issue of Life Magazine...
...Dewey declined last week to release the text of the letter, saying that he had received it in confidence...
...MUCH, if not all of this information and other facts, were in Dewey's possession during the 1944 campaign...
...Marshall's explanation for not telephoning the warning "was that he didn't want to risk interception by the Japanese...
...Marshall sent a secret emissary to Dewey with a letter...
...Thomas E. Dewey, GOP candidate for President in 1944, had the whole story in his possession during the campaign but declined to use it for patriotic purposes, appear in the Sept...
Vol. 9 • October 1945 • No. 39
