U.S. At War: Dec. 7 to Nov. 7

The amount of the Administration's responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster was up again last week. Republican Representative Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, in a speech at St. Paul repeated the oft-made charge that responsibility for the disaster rested solely with President Roosevelt and other high Administration officials. His specific claim: that they had six hours' notice of the time & place for the attack, but did not warn the Army & Navy in Hawaii. Said he: a new secret report had been completed by the new Navy Court of Inquiry, but...

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