ATTACK FORESEEN
f^ANESE AND PEARL JHARBOUB
; »EW YORK, January 2. The State Department has issued a White Book entitled "Peace and War—United States Foreign Policy, 1931 and 1941," and disclosing important diplomatic documents of ;:lhe fateful decade before Pearl ■: Harbour. ■ Th& White Book reveals that Mr. t: C. Grew, Ambassador to Japan, cabled from Tokio on January 27, 1941, Sat the Japanese were planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbour in case of trouble with the United States. - This cablegram was only one of a series of warnings dating back to Vdil and progressively urgent in subsequent years, until the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, told the British Ambassador on November 29, 1941: "The diplomatic part of our relations with Japan is-virtually over. The matter now is going to army and navy officials." He added that "it would be a serious mistake for our country and # other countries interested in the Pacific to make plans for resistance not including the possibility that Japan might move suddenly with every possible element of surprise, spread out over considerable areas^ to capture certain positions and posts before peaceful interested in the Pacific .would have time to confer and formulate plans."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 3
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198ATTACK FORESEEN Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 2, 4 January 1943, Page 3
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