To the surprise of nobody the members of the Joint Congressional Committee investigating the debacle at Pearl Harbor divided up just as their questioning of witnesses had indicated they would.
In a final evaluation of the 70-day hearings, the Democratic majority found the military to blame, found no fault in the planning or actions of the Roosevelt Administration. In a minority report Republican Senators Ferguson (Michigan) and Brewster (Maine) blamed Franklin Roosevelt and Secretaries Hull, Stimson and Knox, but necessarily found the military commanders were also slow of head and foot.
Wisconsin's Republican Representative Frank B. Keefe (who signed the majority report...
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