WARNINGS IGNORED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15241, 6 January 1943, Page 4

WARNINGS IGNORED

U.S. DISCLOSURES. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Th© State Department has issued a White Hook entitled ‘Peace and War—United States Foreign Policy, 1931 and 1941,” disclosing important diplomatic documents of the fatelQl decade before Pearl Harbour. The White Book reveals that Mr Grew, Ambassador to Japan, cabled from Tokio on January 27, 1941, that 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 1932 and progressively urgent in subsequent years, until the Secretary of State, Mr Hull, told the British Ambassador oil November 29, 1941 “Tlie diplomatic part of our relations with Japan are virtually over. The matter now is going to Army and Navy officials.” Mr Hull 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 countries interested in the Pacific would have time to confer and formulate plans.