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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-12-20, Page 3SHARP IDEA—Thi lack of snow and native Christmas trees in the warm winter resort of Phoenix, Ariz., doesn't 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. Is Pearl Harbor Truth Still Hadden? (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 keptthe full facts from the American public. Some, like Adm. HusbandE. 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. ' Horner 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 Per- . 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, does shed 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 was disclosed at the (war crimes trial) that the naval task force under Admiral Nagumo had sailed on 26 November un- der orders to strike Pearl Har- 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 net give a positive clue . to the attack on Pearl Harbor. "I have explored this question In my mind hudreds of times," he says, "and 1 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," Tho item 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 Japanese 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, Mamala Bay (Honolulu), and the areas adjacent thereto. Make. your investigations with great secrecy," "This information was never 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 had 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: o m a "Driving to the information center at Pearl Harbor before that morning, I flipped on the local radio station playing Ha- • wauan 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 II has now softened. For example, Judge Ferguson now believes that President 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." The periods for which patents are valid, vary from 12 to 20 years in the countries having patent laws. In the U.S.A. a patent holds good for 17 years; the term in Canada is 18 years. After the term is completed the' patent becomes public property. 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