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NOT SATISFIED | WITH RESULTS!

Roosevelt. By JOHN L. CUTTER

United Press Staff Corfespondent

WASHINGTON, July 22.—Two Republican members of the Pearl

Here Are Majority, Minority Summaries of Pearl Probe

WASHINGTON, July 23 (U.P). ~The majority and minority re-

ports of the Pearl Harbor inves- |

tigating committee totaled nearly 300,000 :words—the length of about three average novels. *

WASHINGTON, July 28 (U..P.J. Here is a summary of the conclu-

Put Entire Blame for Attack siong reached by the majority and . | minority members of the congresOn Late President | sonia} : Pearl. Harbor committee in back us up in case we struck at reporting on [the Dec. 7, 1941, disaster:

the investigation of

MAJORITY REPORT

Harbor committee today proposed

'G. O. P. gains control of congress.

| tions which preceded the Dec. 17, 1941, disaster, still need further ex- | ploration.

Republican investigation in a

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or not it would have been possible to avoid war by proper diplomatic action and thus avert the Pearl Harbor tragedy was left largely unexplored,” they said. - ’ Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Brewster filed a separate 45,000-word report in which they held that blame for the fact Pearl Harbor was not fully alerted rests on “interdependent” | responsibilities of high officials in | Washington and the field com- | manders at Hawaii. | Absolve Roosevelt | Meanwhile, “a majority of congress’ Pearl Harbor committee ab|s0lved the late. President Roosevelt and his cabinet of blame in Japan's

| ire outpost. Senators Ferguson and Brewster {however, insisted Mr. Roosevelt, his |war and navy secretaries and the {military high command in Washington were just as responsible for {the nation's worst military disaster las the commanders of Hawaiian de|fenses—Adm. Husband E. Kimmel

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1%" Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short. | To forestall any future “Pearl | Harbor,” the committee recommended unity of command be established immediately at army and navy outposts and army and navy lintelligence agencies be integrated | completely “to avoid the pitfalls |of divided responsibility.”

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another inquiry when and if the|

Senators Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.) and Owen Brewster (R. Me.), said the diplomatic negotia-|

treacherous thrust at the U. S. Pa-|

TWO. Japan must take the “ultimate responsibility for the attack and its results.” THREE. The diplomatic policies and actions of the United States “provided no justificable provocation whatever for the attack by Ja'pan on this nation.”

former Secretary of State Cordell |

erced Japan into attacking this na<| tion in order that a declaration of from the congress.” l FIVE. Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Hull and | “high government officials” made | every possible effort, without sacrificing national honor and endan-| gering security, to avert war with} Japan. SIX. The disaster itself was] caused by failure of the army and| navy commanders in Hawaii “(Lt. Gen, Walter C. Short and Adm.| Husband E. Kimmel) to prepare Hawaii “properly ‘against an attacking force. SEVEN. Nearly everyone was sur-, prised by the attack, but “officers, both in "Washington and Hawail, | were fully conscious of the danger from air attack . .. and they were adequately informed on the imminence of war.” EIGHT. The Hawaiian commands failed on seven counts to take adequate preparations for defense. NINE. Their errors, however, were errors of judgment and not dereliction of duty. TEN. The war department's war plans division failed to advise Gen. Short that he was not properly alerted to meet attack. ELEVEN. The war and navy intelligence decisions were not “on the qui vivi” m properly assessing

(R. Cal), and Frank B. Keefe (R. Wis). MINORITY REPORT ONE. Diplomatic negotiations with Japan in the pre-Pearl Harbor | period indicated “growing tension” and, after Nov, 27, 1941, “the immediate imminence of war.” TWO. By Nov. 7, 1941, the late President Roosevelt and his cabinet were convinced. that war was so tmiminent that “the people would

Japan down there (Far East)” THREE. So imminent did they consider war on Nov. 25 that Mr. Roosevelt brought up at a cabinet

| , ONE. The attack was “an unpro-| ,,eeting the possibility that “we

voked act, of aggression by the em- yoo Jikely to be attacked perhaps pire of Japan.” .

next Monday (Dec. 1)."”

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| Harlan 8. Ratliff, Craig Broker- | age Co. field representative for 20

| tute a certainty” and corsequently {should have

FOUR. Mr. Roosevelt and his cabinet, having decided war was imminent, “pursued from Nov. 25 to Dec. 7 the tactics of waiting for the firing of the ‘first shot’ by the Japanese.” % FIVE. There was sufficient organization in Washington so that officials there could have made sure

proper instructions went to Hawaii.

SIX, Army and navy intelligence intercepted “extensive information" indicating imminence of war,

SEVEN. This information was delivered to “the highest authorities” including the President and his military and civilian leaders.

EIGHT. Japanese history cated a surprise attack.

NINE. Nothing warranted Washington in excluding the possibility | of an attack on Hawaii from its | warnings to the Hawaiian com-| manders. Instead, these warnings

stressad the Far Eastern theater. | |

TEN. ‘Mr. Roosevelt concluded 10| days before Dec. 7 that war was |

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instructed Secretary

Born in Spiceland, Mr Ratliff | of War Henry L. Stimson and Sec- |

tian church and Elks order.

4! minority report they filed with con= | Hull, former Secretary of War Hen- | came to Indianapolis in 1891 and | retary of Navy Frank Knox to alert \ry L. Stimson, or the late Secretary entered the grocery business. He [all commanders in the fleld. “The whole question of whether of the Navy Frank Knox “tricked,| was a member of Christian Men]

| ELEVEN. Mr. Roosevelt's decision

provoked, incited, cajoled, or -co-| Builders’ class of the Third Chris-|to await the attack increased the

responsibility of Washington of- |

Rev. A, C. Brooks, pastor of the|fcjals to give all commanders all

duct services at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill Survivors, besides the daughter, include three grandchildren.

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| war might be more easily obtained Third Christian church, -will con-| possible information.

| been formulated in “language not |

open to misinterpretation.” |

- TWELVE. Messages to the Ha-| waiian commanders should have]

THIRTEEN, Messages to Lt. Gen | Walter C. Short and Adm. Husband |

Harbor and. failed to emphasize the probability to Adm. Kimmel and | Gen, Short. : FIFTEEN. The failure to do this was due in considerable measure to “delays, mismanagement, non-co-operation, unpreparedness, con- | fusion and negligence” on the part of officers in Washington. | SIXTEEN. Mr. Roosevelt was responsible - for failing to: enforce proper co-operation among his top Washington leaders in exchanging, | assessing and transmitting informa- | tion to Hawaii. . * |

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| SEVENTEEN, Washington failed {40 give Adm, Kimmel and Gen, | | Short adequate defense equipment | which they requested. EIGHTEEN. Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short in the first instance were 'sel~cted for their jobs by Washington officials charged with responsibility for selecting the hest. possible men. NINETEEN. Washington failed in assessing information, and Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short failed in taking adequate steps to defend Hawaii. TWENTY. Mr. Roosevelt on Dec. | 6 and 7 “failed to take that quick and instant executive action which was required by the occasion and the responsibility for watchfulness and guardianship rightly associated in: law and practice with his high office from the establishment of the

| republic to our own times.” '

TWENTY-ONE. The. contention of Président Truman on Aug. 3, 1945, that “the country is as much to blame as anv individual,” is unwarranted “because the American people had no intimation whatever

Capt. Noel Kitchen, husband of E. Ximmel, Hawaiian commanders, | of the policies and operations that Mrs. Betty Jeanne Kitchen, 269 N.| were couched in “conflicting and | yere being undertaken.”

crash in the Philippine islands, ac-

from the war department. A lifelong resident 6f Indianapolis,

Technical high school and attended Purdue university, where he was a member of the Alpha Kappe Lambda fraternity. A P-47 fighter pilot, he was a veteran of four years’ army service and had spent 13 months in Africa and Italy before returning to the U. 8. in June, 1944. He arrived on

| Luzon in April, 1946. Capt. Kitchen,

who was 27, was a member of Memorial Baptist church. Survivors besides his wife are a

!son, Phillip Lee Kitchen, and his | parents,

Mr. and Mrs. | Kitchen, all of Indianapolis,

| BENJAMIN HANEY Benjamin Haney, a retired Baltimore & Ohio railroad trackman, died yesterday in the home of his

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The surprise dawn attack by | {carrier-borne Japanese planes cost | {the United States 3435 casualties, | {outright loss of 188 planes and loss | eight battleships, | three light cruisers, three destroy-| ers and four miscellaneous vessels. | {| Japanese losses were estimated at less than 100 casualties, 29 planes and five midget submarines. The contradictory findings, based | lon six months of | which accumulated a record of ap- | proximately 10,000,000 words, were | [filed by the 10-man special comI mittee congress established last 'fall to determine once and for all

investigation |

| | {agreed the overwhelming success of |

| the attack stemmed in large meas- | lure from errors of judgment by| | Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short. Both Later Retired

Both were relieved of their com-| | mands shortly after the attack and { subsequently retired. | “The committee has found no evi- | dence to support clhrirges, made be- | fore and during the hearings, that’ the President, the secretary of state, the secretary of war, or the secre"tary of navy tricked, provoked, incited, cajoled or coerced Japan into attacking this nation in order that | a declaration of war might be more

{ last-minute

intercepted Japanese

messages and failed to give proper significance to earlier intercepts

daughter, Mrs. Anna Phillips, 1420 Lexington ave. He was 81. Born at North Vernon, Mr. Haney

{showing great interest in berthing had lived in this city the last 31

{of ships in Pearl Harbor. partments

alerted on Dec, 6 and 7, 1941, view of the imminence of war.”

| Waiter F. George

| years.

were not

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(D. Ga.) and]

He retired from the rail-

TWELVE. The war and navy de- road 15 years ago after completing sufficiently 35 years’ service. Survivors are his daughter, two sons, Frank Haney of Indianapolis The eight-man majority included and Edward Haney of North Madi- { Senators Alben W. Barkley (D. Ky.).| son and three grandchildren. | Requiem high mass will be sung Scott W. Lucas (D. Ill.) and Reps.| for Mr. Haney at 11 a. m. Wednes-

| A majority of the committee =

Jere Cooper (D. Tenn.), J. Bayard (day in St. Clark (D. N. C.), John W. Murphy | church. Bertrand W. Ge€arhart| Madison.

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Errors of Judgment

Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Brewster supported their argument of Mr. | Roosevelt's responsibility on the | three-fold premise that, as President, he was commander in chief of the army and navy, and also was | responsible for the conduct of diplomatic affairs and for appointment of cabinet members and military { and naval chieftains. They also said | he habitually stuck a personal fin|ger into diplomatic and military | affairs. They agreed with previous army land navy investigations, however, {that “the errors made by the Hawaiian commands were errors of | judgment and not derelictions of duty.” »

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