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Marshall, On Pearl Harbor Day, Says
Stark Opposed Warnings Against Japs
WASHINGTON, Doo. 7 UP)
Gen. Oooi'ko C. Marshall told
Pearl Hurbur Invostlttutors to
day that Admiral Harold H.
Stark thouKht warning to Paci
fic commumturii on Due, 7, 1041
would "only confuse thorn."
So Stark, Hum chief of naval
onorntlnns, at flmt onnosed lend
ing such wurnlngs after It bo-
enmo clear that troublo wui
browing for tho United States
that day. Marshall told tho son-
te-houno commlttea Investigat
ing tho attack.
Marshall, wnrtlmo army chief
of stuff, testified he culled Stark
buck on the White llouao tele
phone, however, and innlntod on
tending the messages. Then the
admlrul acceded, Murahnll auld
and aakod that the army warn
ings bo umondud ao that naval
officers at l'aclflc outpoata would
be odvlaed.
Stark Spectator
Stark, later naval chief In the
European theater or operation,
wax a spectator In the hearing
room na Murshull testified.
The hearing was lute In start
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in aocrot acaslon to decide on tho
relevancy of certain ovldance,
Brownell Says
GOP To Sweep
'46 Elections
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CHICAGO, Dee, 7 (!) Na
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Brownell predicted here today
republicana would iialn control
of both houses of congreai in the
1040 elections.
Hero for a midwinter meeting
of the party' national commit
tee, Brownell told nowa con
ference that every lgn points to
sweeping GOP victory In tho
oir-ycar elections.
He voiced approval of a state-
ment of party policy made yes
terday by senate and houso re-
Jiubllcana In Washington. He
ndlcated that national commit
tee approval la a foregone conclusion.'
"When tho republican party
unci coniroi oi congress arter
next November's election." he
aid, "these men will bo tho ones
wno direct the party's program
In congress. It la nnnronrinto
that they Issue a policy state
ment." Asked why he appeared o
confident of a OOP aweep In the
congressional contests, tho chair
man laid three special elections
una yoor indicated that republi
can candidate! wore mectlno
with favor among the votors. He
mentioned contests In the 24th
district of Illinois, the 2nd dis
trict or Montana, ana the 4th
district of Now Jersey.
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Later, Chairman Berkley (D
Ky.) said tho discussion wai
about tho lottor Marshall sont to
Gov. Thomas K, Dowoy of Now
York, 1044 republican presiden
tial candidate, urging him not to
disclose during hli campaign
that the U. S. had cracked Jap
anese codes bofore tho Pearl
Harbor attack. Dowey complied.
Uarklev said that exchange
would be brought up In later
testimony.
Marshull reconstructed for
tho commlttoo how he spent thut
fateful morning of Duo, 7 four
years ago today.
Marshall told tho committee
thut It wai not until ho reached
hla offlco thut day thut he
learned of Japan'a final diplo
matic note to Secretary of State
Hull, indicating a ureuk in rem
lions with the U. S. The nolo,
intercepted and decoded, was
sont to Japanese "peace envoys"
with Instructions to delivery It
to Hull at 1 d. m. (Washington
time) the hour of the assault
on Pearl Harbor.
"On that morning," Marshall
rclatod. "I hud breakfast, I pre
sume about 8 o'clock, according
to tn routine of previous sun.
days. I went riding.
"I must have ridden later than
8:30. I suppose I read the Sun
day puoors and than went rid'
Ing. My rides usually were about
ou minutes.
"While I was taking my
shower, word came to me thut
Colonel Brattun had some'
thing very Important and wish'
ed to come out to Fort Myer. I
told him 1 was coming to the
war department directly.
"My shower probubly took 10
minutes. On my arrival there,
iiratton handed me these inter'
copts. When I reached tho end,
and it was a long message, some
of which I read twice, on the
noxt iheet was the 1 o clock mes
sage.
Indication
"That of courso was an Indi
cation to me of some very defi
nite action l o clock on a Sua
day in Washington, Involving
tne secretary o( note was very
unusual.
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"I called Stark and he said he
had seen it.
"I proposod messages to the
Pacific commanders. Sturk felt
we might confuso thorn. I hung
up the White Houso telephone
und wrote out a message In long
hand." I had thought that Stark
called me back but on checking
I find now that I called him
buck. The effect of our con
versation was then that he
wished me to add to my mes
sages 'show this to your naval
officers.'
"Thepo was soma tulk of typ
ing ine mosBUge out tne decision
was that thore was no timo to
type It. Bratton took tne mes
sages and I asked him about the
time involved In getting them
off. I sont him buck, for esti
mates and I sent him and Col,
Bundy back a second timo to
make sure."
Marshall disputed previous
testimony before the committee
and the armv board on lnuulry.
published last 'August, that he
telephoned the warning mes
sage to General Douglas
Arthur In the Philippines.
"I did not telephone
whore," he said.
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