Pearl Harbour
Sir, —I strongly resent your featuring in Thursday’s issue a Reuter account from Honolulu of the 25-year-old supposed surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbour. There is plenty of evidence from well-authenticated publications that the attack was far from being a surprise, that the preparations for it had been known for weeks, and the hour of delivery known for days. The truth is that the Americans had broken the Japanese secret code six months previously and were fully cognisant of what the Japanese were doing to meet the situation which was being forced on them by American action to force a global war in which America could play a part. President Roosevelt had several days in which he could have sent a signal to Pearl Harbour to deploy their ships to avoid the disaster and he would still have bad the excuse he wanted to rat on his promises to American mothers.—Yours, etc., W. B. BRAY. Leeston, December 9, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 14
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