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Again and again in my mind I have
reviewed the events that preceded the
Wanese attack, seeking to determine
|t I was unjustified in drawing from
jhe orders, directives and information
that were forwarded to me the concisions that 1 did. The fact that I
ll" thought and now think my contusions were sound when based upon
r1* information I received, has sus-
awed me during the years that have
rjjsed since the first Japanese bomb
«U on Pearl Harbor.
... When the information available in
Washington prior to the attack was
"ally disclosed to me long after, I
as appalled. Nothing in my experi-
. ute of nearly forty-two years* service
1 the Navy had prepared me for the
*t,ons (,i tne highest officials in our
PjjYernment which denied this vital
"""'nation to the Pearl Harbor commanders.
" those in authority wished to
S°8age in power politics, the least that
ll"'.v should have done was to advise
fr',<'" naval and military commanders
';'t thev were endeavoring to ac-
""iplish.' To utilize, the Pacific Fleet
J«J the Army forces at Pearl Harbor
a lure for a Japanese attack without
the
ind
commander-in-chief of
the commander of the
unable to comprehend.
I am still able to do so, I
8t«
. niV base at Hawaii is something 1
"m Wholly
f,,^'1"'1''
tie| that I must tell the story so that
i,^'' "Ik, follow may fully realize the
, P'rative necessity of furnishing the
^al and military commanders at the
0 I With full and clear information.
a,y ill this way can the future se-
'ntv r i i >»
I ot our countrv he preserved.
^iiiiral Theobald concludes his
f, Snificent example of logical analy-
>th these remarks,
Fje,.h|'-s, bv holding a weak Pacific
sur ."1 Hawaii as an invitation to a
CoSnSe attack, and by denying the
hr|1""'a»der of that fleet the informa-
C ..vhieh
might cause him to ren-
ittack impossible, President
St>tSeve't brought war to the United
es on December 7, 1941. He took
3 f
hec.' • moused nation into the fight
'"'Vv V|SC' none °f 'ts people suspected
Hi ti ''.Japanese surprise attack fitted
is j. ('r President's plans. Disastrous
l'(.;ir|Mtas from a naval standpoint, the
tlipl "arbor attack proved to be the
<lr.f0a?liltic P«'lude to the complete
"A °^ *'le ^xls Powers.
0^'H S ''"'' leader will make up his
Si,"1"1'1 regarding the
. A
\
^'"'"■'d would certainly cast doubt
t. the wisdom of President Roose-
°Ourse. As for the ethical con-
various ques-
President Roosevelt's
"." to his problem, nothing would
lll.n<'d by an ethical analysis of
„ "hition."
,„. ^""k e at the shape of the post-
Pon\?r'(' would certainly cast doubt
"It's '
siderations, good fruits could hardly be
expected to derive from such methods.
Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey's
foreword to Admiral Theobald's book
points up one of many ethical questions :
"I have always considered Admiral
Kimmel and General Short to be
splendid officers who were thrown to
the wolves as scapegoats for something over which they had no control. They had to work with what
they were given, both in equipment
and information. They are our outstanding military martyrs."
Today, Admiral Kimmel and the
memory of General Short are accorded
honor and respect by all fair-minded
Americans. And those who sought to
do such a vicious thing to them are
becoming increasingly uncomfortable
in the web of their own deceptions.
—G. W. DeArmond, Jn.
Collectivism on the Campus
By E. Merrill Root, The Devin-Adair Company,
23 East 26th St., New York 10, N. Y., 1955, 403
pp., $5.00.
It would be easy to use a cliche and
say, "This book should be in every
college and public library in the
United States." Or the stereotype,
"Here is a book which should be compulsory reading for every college fac
ulty member and student in this country." Unfortunately, very few college
professors will probably ever know of
the existence of this important book on
their profession and fewer will take
the time to read it. You can make some
very easy money by wagering odds
that Collectivism on the Campus will
not appear on the American Library
Association's "Notable Book List of
1955." Or that the American Association of University Professors will not
be rushing around to give it the buildup which it deserves. The left-liberal
literary blackout on all works of this
sort will see to that. The effective
strangle-hold of the anti-anti-Commu-
nist. left-liberal camarilla has already
been well documented by Irene Kuhn
in the American Legion Magazine and
Ralph De Toledano in the American
Mercury, as well as by others.
A few years ago the well-known
whaler from Connecticut, Bill Buckley, drove his harpoon, God and Man
at Yale, deep into the blubbery rump
of the professional educationist trust.
One still hears an occasional howl of
anguish from the professoriate. Now
Dr. E. Merrill Root, himself an educator, has widened and extended the
bill of indictment into a more comprehensive study of the "battle for the
mind in American colleges."
This reviewer at the very onset
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