-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Pearl Harbor Commanders Being Cleared Wes Vernon Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2000 Congress appears ready to acknowledge that the U.S. commanders in Hawaii were scapegoated for the lack of preparedness in the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that dragged this country into World War II. Legislation contained in a massive defense bill, approved by the Senate and House Armed Services committees, says that Adm. Husband Kimmel and Gen. Walter Short performed their duties "competently and professionally," and requests President Clinton to nominate them posthumously to the highest ranks they held during the war. In 1947, after the war had ended, Kimmel and Short were the only two eligible officers denied advancement to their highest-held World War II ranks. There have been at least 10 investigations into the question of where responsibility lies for the failure to mount a defense against the blitz that resulted in the slaughter of thousands of U.S. military personnel the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. The latest probe, conducted in 1995 by Undersecretary of Defense Edwin S. Dorn, concluded that the responsibility for Pearl Harbor should be "broadly shared." Specifically, it referred to intelligence gained from having broken the Japanese code, which was available in Washington the evening of Dec. 6 and the morning of Dec. 7. That information did provide a warning of an attack at dawn, Hawaii time (early afternoon Washington time). But Kimmel and Short were not warned. The legislation clearing the names of Kimmel and Short is backed by a bipartisan coalition of such luminaries as Sens. William Roth, R-Del., Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., and Joseph Biden, D-Del. The bill does not go into the politically radioactive question of who indeed WAS to blame for failure to confront the Japanese if Kimmel and Short were not. What Did FDR Do? That question reopens the raging decades-old debate over whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt deliberately goaded the Japanese to attack so as to leave the U.S. with no choice but to join the fighting. FDR had a political problem with getting into war by a more direct route. During his 1940 campaign for re-election to an unprecedented third term, he had promised and would say "again and again and again" that U.S. soldiers would not have to fight in another world war. Some have suggested Roosevelt was guilty of treachery by not warning that the Japanese were coming. But they have been shouted down by Roosevelt apologists. However, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt tells us in her memoirs that after the president had been informed of the Japanese attack, he was more "serene" than she had seen him in some time. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins described Roosevelt as having "a much calmer air" at a Cabinet meeting that evening. Speaking to the American Chamber of Commerce in London in 1944, Capt. Oliver Lyttleton, production manager in British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s war Cabinet, said that "America provoked Japan to such an extent that the Japanese were forced to attack Pearl Harbor. It is a travesty of history ever to say that America was forced into war." Lyttleton later apologized for the political uproar that his candor had caused on the other side of the Atlantic. Documentation of the advance warning on Pearl Harbor is contained in the late Kimmel’s memoirs, "Admiral Kimmel’s Story" (Regnery, 1955), as well as in George Morgenstern’s "Pearl Harbor" (Devin-Adair, 1947), Frederick Sanborn’s "Design for War" (Devin-Adair, 1951), and Charles Callan Tansill’s "Back Door to War" (Regnery, 1952). 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