HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-01-03, Page 7is Pearl Harbor
Truth Still Hidden?
(Second of Two Dispatches)
by Douglas Larsen
NEA Staff Correspondent
Washington — (NEA) - Fif-
teen years after the disaster. of
Pearl Harbor some of the key
figures still insist that a suc-
cessful conspiracy has kept the
full facts from the American
public.
Some, like Adm. Husband E.
Kimmel who was head of the
Pacific fleet and now is retired
at Groton, Conn., believe that
the full story eventually will
be told.
"The real facts exist in per-
sonal diaries which have been
kept by persons who know the
facts and human vanity will
eventually force them to light,"
he. says 'hopefully.
;On the other hand former
Sen. Homer Ferguson, who
served on the joint Pearl Har-
bor" congressional investigating
committee and is now a judge
of the U.S. Court of Military
Appeals, thinks that the full
story never will be told:
"The truth of how the Roose-
velt Administration egged the
Japanese into launching, the at-
tack has died forever with
Franklin D., Cordell Hull and
Henry L. Stimson," Judge Fer-
guson insists, "and those still
alive, like Gen, Marshall, will
never tell all they know."
Those persons who figured
prominently in the disastrous
events of Pearl Harbor and are
still alive were interviewed all
over the 'U.S. for this review on
the 16th anniversary of the
event. Some had new informa-
tion to offer. Most of them agree
with Judge Ferguson.
During the past year, how-
ever, a book called The Cause
of Japan," written by Shigenori
Togo, the wartime, foreign min-
ister of Japan, doesshed im-
portant new light on the attack.
Togo finished the book while
in prison as a war criminal and
died a few years later. A key
section of his book says:
"It -wasp disclosed at the (war
crimes trial) that the naval task
force under Admira,4-• Nagumo
had sailed on 26 Novembe ri-
der orders to strike Pearl H..,
bor. We (the civilian Japanese
officials) had, of course, no
knowledge of the plan; it was
the invariable practice of the
high command not to divulge to
civilian officials any scrap of in-
formation bearing on these
highly secret operations."
If this is true the actions of
top officials in Washington can
be better understood. The key
Japanese messages decoded in
Washington, which command-
ers at Pearl Harbor never got
but claim would have alerted
them for action, were all sent
by Togo.
The logical question thus
raised is this; If the sender of
the intercepted messages him-
self didn't know the impend-
ing attack on Pearl Harbor how
could Washington have deduced
that from his messages?
Adm. Harold R. Stark, then
Chief of Naval Operations and
today retired on his Pennsyl-
vania farm, 'supports the oft-
repeated claim that the inter-
cepted messages did not give a
positive clue to the attack on
Pearl Harbor.
"I have explored this question
in my mind hudredi of times,"
he says, "and I can only con-
clude that I sent Adm, Kimmel
all of the information he needed
to have to keep him as well in-
formed of events as we were
In Washington."
The dem which raises the
question of Togo's accuracy —
and Stark's judgment — is cited
by Adm. Kimmel. It's this mes-
sage from Togo to a Japanesg
agent in Honolulu ' sent Nov.
18, 1941, intercepted and de-
coded in Washington:
"Please report on the following
areas as to vessels anchored
therein: Area N, 'Pearl Harbor.
lilamala Bay (Honolulu), and the
areas adjacent thereto. Make
your investigations with great
secrecy."
"This information was never
SHARP IDEA—The lack of snow
and native Christmas trees in
the warm winter resort of
Phoenix, Ariz„ doesii'i bother
Barbara Dennis, left, or Glenna
Smith, They get into the sea-
son's spirit by decorating a real
Southwestern "Christmas tree"
—a giant saguaro cactus,
supplied me," Adm. Kimmel
states, The message strongly sug-
gets that Togo was in on the
Pearl Harbor plan, too. But this
now becomes another one of the
controversies which remain un-
solved 15 years later,
*
Another moot question is why
Gen. Marshall's warning to Pearl
Harbor, sent early enough on
Dec. 7, to at least have provided
time to prepare the guns for the
attack, was given to Western
Union instead of the Signal
Corps. The message was handed
by Gen Marshall to Col. Edward
F. French but arrived after the
attack had started.
Col. French, retired in Wash-
ington, explains:
"Static was so bad our com-
munications men heti lost Hono-
lulu, so I gave it to Western
Union to handle. This had been
done previously on other mes-
hages and worked fine. Gen.
Gerow is the man who knows
all about this."
Gen. Leonard T. Gerow was
assistant chief of staff of the
Army at the time and blamed
for neglect in a minority con-
gressional report on Pearl Har-
bor. He is now a banker in
Petersburg, Va.
"Col. French did what was
right," Gen. Gerow insists today.
- "But I have always said that if
it is ever shown that my staff
made any mistakes I was willing
to assume all blame."
In the same category' of moot
questions is the reason why the
young Air Corps Lt. Kermit A.
Tyler ignored the warnings Of
approaching Jap bombers spotted
on radar by Pvt. Joe Lockard,
Tyler is a lieutenant -colonel at
Ent Air Force Base, Colorado
Springs,, today. He recalls:
• • *
"Driving to the information
center at Pearl Harbor before
that morning, I flipped on the
local radio station playing Ha-
waiian music with no voice in-
terruptions and recalled that the
station itself served as a homing
beacon when flights of B -17's
were coming in. So when I got
the radar report later, I assumed
it was those B17's.. I had no way
of knowing these were enemy
aircraft."
And so it remains, 15 years
later.
The bitterness of those who
have felt that they were unjustly
accused, or that top officials in
Washington deliberately provok-
ed the attack to get the U.S. into
World War TI has now softened.
For example, Judge Ferguson
now believes that President
POWs — That .barbed wire encloses part of the estimated 2,000
Egyptians held prisoners to an _Israeli prisoner of war camp
"somewhere in the Sinai .Desert". They will be set, free follow-
ing a final agreement by Israel and Egypt on terms concerning
the disputed area. •
Roosevelt wanted the Japs to
strike the first blow but had no
idea that it would be as devastat-
ing as it turned out to be, Adm.
Kimmel feels the same way.
"We can only hope and pray
that our top military officials
have learned a lesson from Pearl
Harbor that sticks with them to-
day," Judge Ferguson says. "In,
an atomic age the error of judg-
ment which caused the Pearl
Harbor disaster would spell the
end of America,"
Ik wigry !burglars
Thieves who broke into a eon-
• tinental restaurant in a London
suburb not long ago found so
.much appetizing food there that
they decided to stay to supper.
They' spread a cloth on the
floor and settled down to a feast
of cold chicken, water melons,
cheese and wine before leaving
with $600 worth of cigarettes.
The average burglar is usually
in too much of a hurry to dine
"on the job," but when he does
he eats plenty. An impudent
and hungry thief who raided a
Swiss house. ate a sumptuous
meal of roast turkey, ham and
salad followed by a large tin of
fruit salad and a half pint of
cream which he found in the ab-
sent householder's pantry,
Before leaving he wrote a
note, in disguised handwriting,
complaining that he had been
"unable to find any good wine
to finish up with." The note
added: "If you can't be more
hospitable I won't come again!"
Hungry burglars have occa-'
sionally been convicted later
because they left behind teeth
marks on apple cores or on the
rind of cheese. A French thief
who had just been fitted with a
new set of false teeth which
were giving him trouble, took
them. out to have a snack, when
he was robbing a baker's shop.
Unluckily for him, he forgot to
take them with him when he
left with his loot. He was traced
and arrested.
Another burglar concealed
himself overnight in a Paris
cinema and was found by a
caretaker ,next day doubled up
with acute indigestion. Beside
him on the floor lay about a
dozen boxes and cartons which
had contained the chocolates
and sweets he had rifled from
the cinema's confectionery
booth. He had eater. the lot
and had to be rushed to hos-
pital.
Food was also the undoing of
a bad-tempered thief who forced
an entry into a big grocery
store in Indiana. Enraged be-
caues he could find no money,
he mixed together on the floor
what a police witness later de-
scribed as "the world's biggest
omeltte."
He broke four dozen eggs,
poured half a dozen sacks of
flour on to them and then add-
ed large quantities of sugar,
pork, ham, bacon and syrup.
When the man got back to his
lodgings his observant landlady
noticed traces of flour and
syrup On his shoes and coat.
Early next day she 'phoned the
police, saying she felt sus-
picious.
Within an hour the "omelette
maker" was arrested and jailed.
Walking on Gold
Sightseers at the Tower of
London may be walking on gold
worth £250,000, according to the
many 'people who believe that
treasure lies hidden there.
One of the latest treasure -
seekers at . the Tower received
permission recently to investi-
gate with a detector which can
identify metal 'at a depth of
twenty-five feet. He was looking
for what is known as the Berke-
stead Treasure, said to have been
buried by a goldsmith and for-
mer governor of the Tower in
the seventeenth century. He
found no treasure, but will make
further attempts shortly.
There is a story that this trea-
sure was buried in butter tubs.
Among the men who tried to find
it and failed was the famous
diarist, Samuel Pepys. He ` be-
lieved it lay under an old wall
near the Bloody Tower.
A former official of the Tower
of London, who lived there for
thirty-nine years, said that in-
vestigations had not been thor-
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tradition of buried gold there.
During a hunt for the trea-
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went down eight feet in a wine
cellar in the north wingand
found a wooden flap.
They uncovered it, probed to
the bottom, but found nothing,
That was about the only real
clue Tower treasure seekers
have, ever had—and that proved.
fruitless.
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