Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy - Ludwig von Mises ...
Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy - Ludwig von Mises ... Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy - Ludwig von Mises ...
Acknowledgments As my husband notes in the Preface to this book, his interest in Pearl Harbor stemmed from his year-long association (1945–1946) with the Congressional Joint Committee to Investigate the Attack on Pearl Harbor. As director of the Committee’s minority staff , he studied all the documents furnished the Committee and attended all the hearings. After the hearings ended, he received a small grant from Harry Elmer Barnes to seek answers to some questions raised but not answered by the several investigations. With money from the grant, he traveled back and forth across the country in the early 1960s, interviewing individuals who had an interest in Pearl Harbor. Here they are, listed in alphabetical order: Admiral Walter S. Anderson, General Carter W. Clarke, Curtis Dall, General Bonner Fellers, Admiral Th omas L. Hart, Admiral Royall E. Ingersoll, Captain Th omas K. Kimmel, Captain Robert A. Lavender, Admiral Arthur W. McCollum, Commander Charles C. Miles, Admiral Ben Moreell, Admiral Joseph R. Redman, Admiral F.W. Rockwell, Captain Laurence F. Saff ord, Vice Admiral John F. Shafroth, General Albert C. Wedemeyer, and General Charles A. Willoughby. Captain Saff ord deserves special mention. Percy talked with him many times on his frequent visits to Washington and Saff ord described to him in xix
xx Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy careful detail the Navy’s pre-war system for keeping secret the very existence of the Japanese MAGIC intercepts and the information they revealed. When Barnes’s funds ran out, Percy’s serious study of Pearl Harbor was sidetracked as he returned to the more urgent demands of earning a living. However, he continued reading and lecturing on the subject. Only in semi-retirement, did he again have time to actually start putting the results of his research on paper. As I have written, Percy died in 1984. His manuscript was practically fi nished. After his death, however, I took over the task of editing it and readying it for publication. I physically chopped up the typed manuscript and reorganized chronologically his accounts of pre-war events and post-war revelations. I also put the entire manuscript on the computer. I interviewed several persons: radioman Ralph T. Briggs, the Navy code clerk who had intercepted the elusive “East Wind Rain” message, Admiral Kemp Tolley, commander of the Lanakai, one of the three small ships ordered by Roosevelt to be commissioned just before the attack and to take up positions in the South China Sea in the path of the south-bound Japanese convoys, and Admiral Kimmel’s son, Captain Th omas Kimmel, whom my husband had also interviewed. As a result of my editing, the manuscript plus its footnotes became much too long for any publisher to consider. Sheldon Richman, editor of Th e Freeman, helped cut it down. Daniel Bazikian spent many hours with me proofreading the manuscript. Two Japanese friends—Toshio Murata and Kentaro Nakano—translated for me the passage in a book by Japan’s chief intelligence offi cer in Washington, indicating that a Winds Execute (“East Wind Rain”) had actually been received before the attack by the Japanese embassy in Washington; this Japanese account was in contradiction of the position of U.S. Intelligence offi cers who refused to admit during the Congressional hearings that such a message had been sent by Tokyo which could have
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Acknowledgments<br />
As my husb<strong>and</strong> notes in the Preface to this book, his interest<br />
in <strong>Pearl</strong> <strong>Harbor</strong> stemmed from his year-long association<br />
(1945–1946) with the Congressional Joint Committee<br />
to Investigate the Attack on <strong>Pearl</strong> <strong>Harbor</strong>. As director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Committee’s minority staff , he studied all the documents furnished<br />
the Committee <strong>and</strong> attended all the hearings. After the hearings<br />
ended, he received a small grant from Harry Elmer Barnes to seek<br />
answers to some questions raised but not answered by the several<br />
investigations. With money from the grant, he traveled back <strong>and</strong><br />
forth across the country in the early 1960s, interviewing individuals<br />
who had an interest in <strong>Pearl</strong> <strong>Harbor</strong>. Here they are, listed in<br />
alphabetical order: Admiral Walter S. Anderson, General Carter<br />
W. Clarke, Curtis Dall, General Bonner Fellers, Admiral Th omas<br />
L. Hart, Admiral Royall E. Ingersoll, Captain Th omas K. Kimmel,<br />
Captain Robert A. Lavender, Admiral Arthur W. McCollum,<br />
Comm<strong>and</strong>er Charles C. Miles, Admiral Ben Moreell, Admiral<br />
Joseph R. Redman, Admiral F.W. Rockwell, Captain Laurence<br />
F. Saff ord, Vice Admiral John F. Shafroth, General Albert C.<br />
Wedemeyer, <strong>and</strong> General Charles A. Willoughby. Captain Saff ord<br />
deserves special mention. Percy talked with him many times on his<br />
frequent visits to Washington <strong>and</strong> Saff ord described to him in<br />
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