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Joint Congressional Committee, Pearl Harbor Attack: Part 1 649
Hearings Interrupted—
A Stranger at the Committee Table?
General Miles returned briefl y to the witness stand, and
Senator Ferguson, a Republican, continued the questioning.
Senator Lucas, a Democrat, interrupted:
A moment ago, when I merely suggested to Senator Ferguson
that he let General Miles answer the question, the gentleman
on Senator Ferguson’s right got a hearty chuckle out of it. I
would like to know just who the gentleman is and what right
he has to sit alongside of the committee table and chuckle at
a member of the United States Senate. . . . I do not propose to
sit around this table and permit some individual that I do not
know anything about, who is constantly in this case and constantly
reminding Senators of the type and kind of questions
they should ask, to give a hearty chuckle to something I might
suggest in connection with this hearing. 117
Ferguson spoke up. “His name is Percy Greaves. He is with
Senator Brewster and has charge of Senator Brewster’s fi les in
this case.” Senator Brewster was out of town on this particular
day attending his father’s funeral. Ferguson had shifted into
Brewster’s seat and I had moved with my papers and documents
from my usual place behind the committee table to a seat next to
Ferguson at the committee table.
Senator Lucas had known Marshall well when he had been
Judge Advocate of the Illinois National Guard in the 1930s and
Marshall had been Special Instructor of the National Guard. Th e
Democrat committee members had been disturbed for some time
by the sharp and persistent interrogation of administration witnesses
and Lucas was especially upset by the pointed questioning
of Marshall.
117 Ibid., p. 1372.