CHIEFS BLAMED
PEARL HARBOUR INQUIRY _FINDIWGS UNPREPARED STATE (11 a.m.) WASHINGTON. July 21. The Congressional committee which investigated the Pearl Harbour disaster has issued two reports. The majority report, consisting of six Democrats and two Republicans, in a 10,000-word document, commended President Roosevelt and said he had made every possible effort to avert war. The report placed the primary blame for the unreadiness of Pearl Harbour on the military commanders at Washington and Hawaii. The committee lound no evidence supporting the charges made that the President and Secretaries of State, War and Navy had tricked, provoked, incited, and cajoled or coerced Japan into attacking the United States in order that a declaration of war might be more easily obtained from Congress. Treacherous and Unprovoked The committee declared that the attack was an unprovoked, treacherous act of aggression, planned and launched while the Japanese envoys were carrying on negotiations in Washington. The
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22079, 22 July 1946, Page 5
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