There are a number of striking things to be noted in today's reports oh iearl darbor - reports aade by Army and Navy commissions that studied the disaster. The documents were made public by President Truman on the ground that the public is entitled to know about the reports on the reasons) and, the responsibilities. One thing is this~- The Aray and lav1 did not want war with Japan at that tiae. The lavy report states: •on the fifth of ioveaber, iinet•en fort7-dne, the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chief-of-Staff of the United States Aray, sabaitted a joint ■e ■ orandu■ to the President, recoaaending that no ultiaatua be delivered to Japan at that tiae - and giving~ as one of the basic reasons, the existing nuaierical superiority of the Japanese Fleet over the United States Pacific Fleet. In other words, the Aaerican Fleet was divided, part of it in the Atlantic and part of it in the Pacific. 11 _____ - And OU n V ore in th p ci ic as infer ior to th av 0 the J a ("lo he Chi e . s of the vy n rm · h ou · ht it ou l nw i to n -tic;f e s sue a n ul i a ium to J a ou ld be likely ~ \ to C u s e war. The r or t ou ches u o n this same po int , in st a t· n h o f r, lD i ts op i nion, Secret ry of St a Co rde ll Hull wa s re ponsible. It ~eclares that the f i n 1 di pl omatic demand issued to Japan, el e ven d a ys before Pearl Barbo, wa used by the Japs as a signal to be in the war agaiwat by the attack on Pearl Harbor. Spe aki ng of the American diplomatic mes(age, today's Army report states: "To the extent that it hastened such attack, it was in conflict •kiak with theaffas efforts of the war and navy departments to gain time fo~ preparations for war. However", adds the re ort, " ar with Japan was inevita b le". Meaning, of course, that our diplomacy may have hastened the outbre a k of a r for which the Arm and Navy felt they ere O t be ad y. They, inf ~t, wanted a delay of three months befor e anything decisive w as done, but Pres id ent • - l Roo 1 i r hi m sa e d 1·v e r cd o To o . Tod Y Se cr e a r of a r Sim on disagre d i th the lacing of any r e onsi ility on Secretary Hull, ~ says t : t ~ t ~ ~ t justified. A Anoth r strikin thin today is the responsibility i ace d on General Marshall, Army ehief- of-Staff. H e , in the opinion of the _ report, did not bive to Gen ral Short, our Army comm a nder in Mazaii Hawaii, sufficient indication that war in the Pacific was imminent. Also - h e did not take into account a mess a ge from General Short, in which that Commander .. stated the recautions he w a s taktn3. Short's message from Hawaii indicated a confusion - so stats today's army report. The lacing of Pearl Harbor responsibility on General ar hall is attacked by both Secretary of War Stimson nd President Trum a n. On this oint they d·sa re e em h ical y ith he ·n ain of the Army com issi o n, and th r esi d ent st a s in vi orous term s hat the conduct of Q,en e r al a r sh 11 was - - -- al tog th r c o r e c J.l, · t· · - c r1 1c 1 m unju ti f i d. uh c r iti ci s m i s o d i~ e ct e d a a inst A dmir a l S t a h o a t t h e ti me of P e arl H a rbo r w a s F le e t Co n a nd r in a s h1· n t Th N on. e av y re or t states: "Th e d e re l e ctio n s on the part o f A d mi r 1 Stark a nd Admir 1 K im mel e r e f a ults of omiss io n r a ther than f a ults of c o m m issi o n ". Th e troub le being, w hat th e y di d not do. As for Admiral Kim m el, who •tx shared with General S h ort aai the command in Haw a ii, the findings are much the same as have been statid previously. We are told that he t ■ •• took p recautions agains t attac - bu t never suspect e d the kind of a ttack that was com i ng. trevious accounts have stated that prec a utions were against a p o ssible air blow. A of the Ja p nese plan. It wa s beli e ved that when w a r came, th e Japs w ould str i ke to th e s outh, g ai nst th e Du tch Es t I ndi es - and not aga i nst Pearl Ha bor. Tod a y's r e or ts in ti ma t e tha t our com man d e ? i n Ha a ii - 4 sti d th co a ilities - on what the J aps mot lik e l to do , a n not on hat they mi ht be abl to do . ere Th r epo r ts are mphatic in ns w ering one char e that has been made - the allegation that there was b a d feeling a nd a lac k of cooperation based on ill ill, tafa bet een the Army and the Navy. This is not true , sa the Army and N a vy commissions. The best of feelings prevailed between Admiral Kimmel and General Short in discussions of joint defense - the only trouble being that the m ~asures of joint defense werefnot t a ken effective! ~ in time. The reports make no recommendations for colllt, martial proceedings; but,th4se may be held. Pre ident Truman ma k es it plain that the question of Pe a r H a rbor is not closed. 0 H e a l at e e t il on the P e rl H rbor s t o ere · r of r i m o n iscloses th a t General a r s a ll i n t no of h im n i n br 3 ak 0 d i lomatic r elatio n s ith J an until the morning of Dec mber 7t h . Be H ~. • t I_ 1 aw11 - - 0 u en r a " imm iat ely h o~-t. f J A flashed the word to ' arn~that an att a ck " on Pearl Harbor was likely. i Admiral St a rk, Fleet Comm ande r in W as hi gton, didn't igree w ith General Marshall' s idea of sending the •~x•~ warning, but finally gave hi s okay. Gener a l arshall's me ssag e arrived in Ha aii at five A.M. on December 7th_-- t w enty two minutes before the Jav planes came over. By the time the warning as decoded and got to General Stark it was afternoon -- hours after the disastrous att a 9k. QQCUPATIO.fL Toni g ht a giant move through the air is way - from Okinawa to the area of Tokyo Bay - ' course daytime over there on the other side 0 _I eary morning -- and great fleets .( streaming through bright weather. l n other words, The previous landings a Atsugi Airfield orld were preliaiaary -- ■ ade by tech icians to get things ready for the giant landings. going on, and in the swarm of bears an historic na ■ e -- Ba w the big ■ oYe is planes is one that That's the private c.-,.~ la ea,, S!J\ of General llacJlrt who is riding to Tokyo in ~ - • • called" taan:• J: -f.&- •P ft- ~ k\-v-~~ ~ ~~~. At the sa ■ e ti ■ e ines and Sailors ot the Fleet are force and take oYer the Yokosuka laval Base. Ad ■ iral li ■ itz arriYed today and went aboard the great battleship South Dakota, ■aking it his flagship. H will represent the United States, i~~President Truman at the foraal surrender in A A. which General Yacirthur will figure as the supre ■e I .. OCCUPATION - 2 .... . .. _ , ... _.,.,.. ____ commander for al l the Allies out - ~ ---- - - Admir a l Nimitz today decl red that seapower had won the war -- sea power having ma~e it possible to launch the atomic bomb that terminated the conflict so abruptly. He pointed out how the H1vy had seized island bases one after the other , oM,he road to Japan, . so that air power could get within range of the Jap ATOMIC BOUB -------- American scientists of the Atom are going to Japan as soon as they can. Top physicists who developed the Atomic Bomb are eager to inspect the scene where the elemental evastation hit Japan - Hiroshima nd Nagasaki. They want in particular to check on Japanese reports that radioactivity has been lingering in the earth, . the ground poison d and causing fatalities long after \he explosions. This has been stated positively by Tokyo propaganda - and it bears on a dispute that ca■e':::t.., over here right A aft r the disclosure of the greatest ■ ilitary headline of the war. At that time on technician who had done some work dn the Atomic Bomb project, stated that fatal radiation might linger in the ground for as Years afte r an explosion. This was long as seventy of 'icially denied t od•r tbet ~ , ATOMIC BOMB - ----- - 2 inti th . t> t I 8 I @tflrled: hdi pF@Ct&Cioes at test explosion in the desert of lew Mexico, Dr. Enrico Fer ■ i, the ltalian physicist of the Ato ■, examined the crater made by the blast of the Atom. He went to the crater in a · specially mt built tank, and it is now believed that this tank was ■ade of the aetal cadmium which is a protection against zait ■ mtatx radioactivity. e, ATOMIC BOMB -4 - blood test at a hospital revealed that the white corpusc l es were only one-tenth of normal. The red corpusc le s - about two-thir ds normal. Tokyo declares that aedical studies haYe revealed that t1MtjMa-.-1t•eie1 aave--Hvealed trh.Mr the internal organs which contribute to the making of the blood had undergone striking changes - were injured in the same way aa if they bad been exposed to high power radioactivity. The l ist of big-shot war criminals was disclosed tod a y - l eaders of ~ uazi Germany who are to be tried by an International Commission. The list i ~ pretty much what we would expect - with a surprise or two. , It is headed by Goering, Ribbentrop.and ., , Rudolf H e ss. Th e na ■ e o Bess is unexpected, because word from E ngland had been that he was unlikely to be tried. Bess who ■ade the melodramatic parachute jump in Sc1i'otland has been reported for so ■e ti ■e mentally deranged, out of his ■ ind. Th e list goes on with such notorious lazis as Alfred Rosenberg, and the anti-semitic rabble rouser Julius Streicher. One · surprise a ■ ong the lazi Party leaders is Martin Bormann, who was Deputy to Hitler. He was with the lazi Fuehrer in the final battle for the German Chancellery in Berlin, and his name on the li s t today is the first real indication that Bormann had survived. it had been thought that he m ight h ave per i shed alon g ith Hitler and Gobbels. WAR Qlil!IN A L S - 2 Borm a n n i s r ep u t ed to ha v e be e n pr e sent at the death of B i t l er, an d his t e stimony a t th e trial will presumab l y in c lu d e st a temen ts about the final end of Der Fuehr e r - c o ncerning which some doubt is still ex press ed. On the l i t are h i gh Geraan commanders like Ad ■ iral Doenitz, who succeeded Bitl o r as Fuehrer and signed the s urrender of Germany. Also, Chief-of-Staff General Jodl, and Grand Ad ■ iral Raeder. And we note the name of Dr. Schacht, the financial wizard of laziis ■• Also - Irupp. The head of the great Irupp works, hich was the key to German armament, is to be tried. He is the only German industralist on the list. r e ang_µ. n o · on , b r n h ar i in e · c · d , D . D.T ., in a r· h a int 1 T h_ ne one in h tor o th u e t 0 D u f h t e r foun 0 e ect ive n he ro > C n t i C e,. of th e unt.,le . On Gu m , i a n and inian I fo u n no bu s t 11 - 0 mo u i oes - no fl i s , ecause he slands h a een s r a ith • D . . An d it a he same in ilo , a on Io Ji m, and O ina a . Th r has been a n inc ease of infant·1e r 1 sis 1n Bo ton one di rict in par i cular. And he P ic He 1 h Com mi s i on ord r ed t ha t this dis ric es r a yed ith r ·v e undred ounds of D . D .T. in li uid form. Ho 0 the in c ticid or ag ain inf an · 1e araly · s? I ju i i 1 a l th e fl· es , th fl' e r e believe d o c rr the virus th a t caus e the dre m a l dy - polio . SOME :::.--- In C hi cago, a h usband and ' f h 1 e ave in their house tonight a sort of Home Sweet Home Official, who is coami ss ioned to domestic ba les that might break out. b:e appoia4e& a househWl=d pe~eema ■ er Ne=+eceo ■missd~•ed " , •aT ■ atrimeninl Pews a-ea &D9le&, It happened this way. The husband a n ~ were A stating t eir case in court, nd off to one side, listenmg was their twelve year old son. The boy fin lly spoke up. He told the judge that be wanted Dad and Mom back ho ■ e ag in, only he wished they would in his words, 'Quit fussing.• That gave the judge the idea. The parents agreed to try domestic life again, and his honor told the ( friend of the twelve year old boy: ' I will ' appoint you a , court to report back to me if your parents do any more fussing.• So to . ight Da and Mom are looki n gag at each other, and whenever t ey happen to think of some th ing 2 sharp to say to each other they look over at Sonny Boy, and restrain th ms lves. And if there sho uld be any suggestion of a risin pitch of voices with an tll-tempered accent, Sonny Boy ill say: •If you don't yf, stop that ~•11 send you to 1 bed ~ y . to,~ a..J ~ \--\,.._ ) ~ - ~ ' ' o ' -tc, ., •