Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1942, Page 13

- 'what might be called our naval| .. the highest off- § A On the Record Pearl Harbor Vindicates Taussig Plea Admiral Was Rebuked In 1940 for Urging Philippine Protection By DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘Although the Roberts repert care- fully refrained from commenting on | By DOROTHY THOMPSON. ‘The report on Pearl Harbor is a report on the greatest single military and naval disaster in It has fur- American history. nished the American slo- gan of the war: Remember- Pearl Harbor! But what shall we re- member about | Pearl Harbor? | Shall policy in the Pacific, the official | records of hear- ings in Congress we re- and articles member how written by naval the Japanese | |acted or how | we acted? If we § | remember how Dorothy Thomps we acted and stop acting that way, then “Remember Pearl Har- bor” will be, like the cry “Re- member the Alamo!” a slogan for us. If not, the Japs and the Germans can cry the same slo- gan. 1t is ridiculous to think of Pearl Harbor as an isolated phenome- officers familiar with the Far East show that advice given re- peatedly has been ignored by eials of our Gov- ernment. Thus, for ex- ample, Admiral | Joseph K. Taus- David Lawrence. s | sig was reprimanded and denounced for his outspoken views before the | Benate Naval Affairs Committee in | non. Yes, Lt. Gen. Walter C.- Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel were grossly negligent. April, 1940. He has now been re- tired and is one of the few men of | virile physique who have not been called to active service. He bids | fair to become another Billy Mitchell : in the military annals of America | for his point of view has been vindi- | cated by the story of inefficiency and lack of preparedness revealed in the | Roberts report. | Admiral Taussig advocated that if | our battleships were based in | Hawaii, ;a strong scouting fleet should afways be maintained in the | Philippines. Had this been done the Japanese Navy, it is now argued. would never have dared to venture | so far from the Japanese mainland | with its airctaft carriers and fleet units as was the case on December | 7 and the days immediately pre- | ceding. Begged for Sound Naval Policy. A rereading of Admiral Taussig's testimony before the Senate Naval | Affairs Committee showed that he | begged for a sound naval policy and fleet protection for the Philippines. He has for many years been a mem- ber of the staff at the Naval War | College and served not only as chief of staff to the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet but as assistant chief of naval operations in Wash- ington. His blunt statement to the Senate committee on April 22, 1940, which caused a sensation, was as follows: “We need be under no delusions as to the aims and policies of Japan | The pronouncements of her states- men in answer to protests against violations of rights of other nations are of course worthless. The real policies of Japan are embodied in the declarations of her militarists during ‘past years and it is these poli- cies that are being carried out.*** “The first step in their plan is the domination of the Far East. This is under way at present, with the subjugation of China. The Philip- pines, Netherlands Indies, French Indo-China and Mealaya will be taken over in due course of time. Russia is to be driven westward of Lake Baikal “The above is a very grandiose plan and much may happen to in- terfere with its accomplishment. ‘The fact remains, however, that it is a plan which is under way in the hands of a determined, warlike people. armed with modern weapons, with little or no effective opposition. Past treaties, rights of neutrals, rules of civilized warfare as we under- sfand them. are brushed 2side and ignored in the furtherance of the plan.” Urged Fortifying Guam. Admiral Taussig urged not only the immediate enlargement of the fleet but the building of “an im- pregnable base in the Philippines and the fortification of Guam so as to make its cepture impossible.” He advocated an immediate agreement with Britain, France and the Neth- erlands for the use of their bases in the Far East. At that time France had not yet been subjected to the blitzkrieg. The admiral did not think 2 two- ocean Navy would be built right away but argued instead for an alertness and proper preparedness on the part of the fleet units that " we did have. His theory was that prompt co-operation with France Britain and the Dutch would have furnished a sufficiently large force to take care of any immediate sit- uation in and around the Philip- pines. Tt is Admiral Taussig's views on the proper distribution of the Navy, however, and what he terms the organization of the fleet that will stand out as lessons which, if ac- cepted, might have averted the tragedy at Pearl Harbor. Incidentally, the son of Admiral ‘Taussig was seriously wounded in the attack on Hawaii. (Reproduction Rights Reserved.) Boys’ Club Will Hold Birthday Dance Friday Bernard Morse, 10-year-old Wash- ington boy, whose picture will be on the official program for the President’s birthday celebration, will be t of honor at a dance gues! 1o be held Friday night by the Cen- tral Branch of the Boys’' Club of | | ;smmmn. of which he is a mem- | T The dance will be held in the elub's headquarters at 230 C street N.W. from 7:30 to 9:30 in honor of the President. Entire proceeds will 80 to the Infantile Paralysis Fund. Service Men to Be Honored A “social” for Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers will be held at 8:30 o'clock tonight at the Wash- ington Hebrew Congregation, 816 Eighth street N.W., under the aus- pices of the Service Guild, Brother: hood and Sisterhood of the Wash- ington Hebrew Congregation and the Council of Jewish women. ‘Three hundred officers and their Wwives have been invited. ! | | § 1N Maybe they will be court-mar- tialed. But that won't finish the lesson of Pearl Harbor. Too much is revealed in this report; too much that throws light on the whole mentality of the American nation. Fatuous optimism has not been confined to the general and the admiral. The same sloppi- ness of thinking and performance is to be abserved in every walk of life. And the same lack of co- operation. Did the attack really take us by surprise? Obviously not. How we would be attacked was uncertain. But that war was imminent; that the Japanese would follow the Axis ritual; that the attack would be a blitz move was certain. It was, for instance, a great deal more certain than the German attack on Russia. Blitz Attack Foreseen. The possibility of a blitz on the naval base of the Pacific fleet was foreseen in a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of War on January 24, 1941, over a year ago, and in this letter egery form of the attack was foreseen—air bombing and air torpedoes, sabotage, and sub- marines. - So we cannot say that the dis- aster was due to a lack of imag- ination! But now how did we behave— because I insist on encompassing a whole pattern of American be- havior in the behavior of the commanding authorities? The prophecy of the Army and Navy Department was a prophecy made by many people—journa- lists, for instance—for many years. And therefore if we ask, “Why didn't the authoritiés at Pearl Harbor act?” we must also ask, “Why didn't the entire Na- tion act?” The commanding generals act- ed like nearly everybody. They saw and still didn't believe. They were thoroughly ‘“unhysterical.” Seven Warnings to Leaders. Seven times they were warned. For a crisis three stages of mobilization had been planned: Alert 1, 2 and 3. When the last warning arrived and a crisis was breaking all over our heads. dis- cussed thrmoughout the globe, the commanding general took the Axis Faces "Frightful iSurprises,” Jouett Says B the Associated Press NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—“Frightful surprises” for Germany and Japan in the form of new devices for destruction are forecast by the spokesman of America's lviation‘ industry. . “The aviation that we have heard about thus far during this war is nothing to what we should see in | the near future,” Col. John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronauti- cal Chamber of Commerce, told the Economic Club last night. “I know there are some technical developments of great magnitude. 1 know that we are not lacking in that respect. production. There are ‘many new devices of destruction. not for some problematical date, but now. They are being produced in quantity now.” Although he called Axis air power “the greatest threat to our succe: | in this war and our security here,” | he asserted that modern United | the-clock service Round-the d.,gmresfvom momning till night: PCA 0 Cleveland) ‘wvgnigr“ (via 08 15th St N-We Republic 5656 THE EVENIXG STAR, WASHINGTQN, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1942. America Denounced for ‘Fatuous Optimism’ In Analysis of Pearl Harbor Report minimum precautions—alert 1, which was only a defense against internal sabotage and rebellion. Though there hasn't been a case during the whole war when an internal rising has not co- incided with external aggression. There was an aircraft warn- ing system. It was never put on a 24-hour basis. It worked from 4 to 7 a.m. perhaps on trade union rules. By the merest ‘chance a non-com remained at his post two minutes beyond the clock and heard what he thought was a large flight of planes ap- proaching. (The patrol system wasn't working either.) He reported to a lieutenant, who again had calm nerves, like the general. So nothind hap- pened. Fifty-three minutes later —nearly an hour—the blitz hit. The submarine net—which was also closed only part time—was open when the Japs struck. The idea was, let’s have a good time as long as possible. And what that attitude of mind has cost us is not yet measured. Japs Knew Our Attitude. The complacency rose out of conviction that we could ade- quately defend Pearl Harbor and that the enemy must know this —therefore, wouldn't act. But the Japanese knew something else, something more important than the defenses—the attitude of our mind—therefore, did act. And, of course, we weren't con- ducting counterespionage because we are a noble people and don't spy on nations with whom we have “peaceful” relations. Thus, we still live in the 19th century and therefore in fictions. We wouldn’t spy on cables from 200 consular officials, even if they were sitting on our most im- portant naval base. And finally we learn that the admiral and the general were treating each other politely, but weren't quite on speaking terms. There are no miracles in his- tory. The fall of France was no miracle; the resistance of Brit- ain none; the comeback of Rus- sia none; the blitz of the Japa- nese none. There is such a thing as morale and efficiency, and there is such a thing as the lack of them, and national char- acteristics always show in a crisis. 0. C. D. Reorgantzation Urged. The characteristics that pro- duced Pearl Harbor are still in the civilian defense and are still in the warring agencies in Wash- ington, where men engaged in branches of the same work also hardly speak to one another. There is nothing to be gained by blaming any one. But we can pray for an awakening of the Na- tion, so that our immense THE opinions of the writers on this page are their own, not necessarily The Star’s. Such opinions are presented in The Star’s effort to give all sides of questions of interest to its readers, although such opinions may be contradictory among themselves and directly opposed to The Star’s. The Great Game of Politics . La Guardia, Wanting to Leave O. C. D. Post, Unable to Find Good ‘Exit Line’ By FRANK R. KENT. In Washington last Friday Mayor La Guardia made it clear three sepa- | rate times in a single speech that he expects to quit his directorship After that occurs—or even before —it would algo be a considerable help if the President would clearly define which agency is charged with the | and then permit that agency to con- those lines. As recently pointed out, the MacLeish Facts and Figures or- | There can no | longer be any | doubt of his in- tention. But, he § did not say when. The trou- 3 ble seems to be that the Mayor | cannot find what | in theatricals is referred to as a | good “exit line.” Obviously, he has made up his scene look upon premotion of civilian morale by the executive order creating it, but the O. C. D. was specifically so charged four months earlier. . In addition, a jwariety of smaller agencies have simply assumed that civilian morale is their job, too. bureaus Frank R. Kent. themselves duty of promoting civilian morale | | centrate and control all activities on | They mind to get out and wants to get | civilian morale instruments. out, but he naturally does not want | to seem forced out by the criticism. | in their own selected directions, un- ganization is partly charged avith the | Most of the multitudinous press and publicity divisions | which clutter up the Washington | as | have their own ideas and go it alone | | Quite clearly he is searching for the | restrained—so far—by either O. F. F. | | exit line and his early withdrawal | from a post to which he never should | have been named or, named, never | morale business is important and it | should have accepted, is certain. or O.C. D. The result, of course, is | conflict and confusion. This civilian | is being managed in a scrambled and | This being established, the question | ineffectual way. It needs to be con- | | remains as to whether Mrs. Roose- | centrated and co-ordinated. | velt, whom he appointed as associate | director and who has been subjected | | to the same criticism for much the | same reasons, will retire with him. | The belief here is that she will | not. For one thing it is asserted | that, unlike the Mayor, she does not | want to get out, but does want to stay in. She greatly enjoys what‘ | she is doing, as is evidenced almost | daily by her comment in her column | | upon her own activity. For another, :despite a large volume of opinion | to the contrary, she is entirely con- | | vinced that she is doing a fine job. | The confusion to which she adds | | and the resentment she has created | altogether escape her. Her feeling | is that she is needed in this position. | And the other day she said that whose cost is altogether out of pro- portion to their worth. An instance here the other day in the Donovan organization. An even better one is the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, which in its 50 years of ex- istence has never had anything resembling a press agent or publicity man. (Copyright, 1942.) Cuthedrul to Launch she would stay “as long as they want me.” i Can’t Be Told to Quit. It has been pointed out by various | commentators that mo one in the organization is in a position to tell | the wife of the President that she is not wanted, and all printed sug- | gestions to that effect are ignored | by her as inspired by prejudice or | written by unworthy persons. Cer-‘ italnl‘\'. her recent effort to have her | young friend, Mr. Joseph Lash, made an officer in the United States Navy | and her speech critical of the segre- gation of white from colored women !in the Red Cross first-aid classes, | have not increased the desire to Special Series Sunday The Rev. George Buttrick of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian | Church of New York will inaugurate “Jakinto. States dive bombers “make used in Europe only a vear ago ap- pear like relics of the past.” RARISTOCRATY | Always in Good Taste and It Tastes Good Too There are better air- | planes even now going into mass Vglley Forge Distributing Company Washington. D. C. strength can be used. We can | have her remain. However, remain | help create that kind of reaction tha': after Alamo gave us_ San ;q'xxt line than for the Mayor. Mr. Landis, the recently appointed | 1. ¢ pi‘édecutive, naturally cdn do’! | nothing except laud the services of |the Mavor and Mrs. Roosevelt and express the hope that they will not | retire. Nevertleless, it is too clear to | dispute that he will be able to do a | better job if there is no one over him | who can give him orders and no one | under him to whom he cannot give | orders. He is not the ideal man for the job, but he is under the same handicap in his present position that leasing of the American Prome- |Mr. Donald Nelson was as executive theus. ~ | secretary of the S. P. A. B. Clear (Released by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ‘recognitmn of who is boss and free- ydom from restrictions, either per- sonal or official, are what is needed here. The withdrawal of the Mayor will help a lot. We can demand a reorganiza- | tion in the Officé BY'Civilian Dt fense; a siren and a thorough blackout system for New York, and all important industrial arees; the elimination of petty quarreling, the streamlining of programs, the reduction of paper work and the end of apathetic optimism. In such a rejuvenation, the motto, “Remember Pearl Har- bor” would indeed mean the re- those THE ADAM SCHEDT BREWING CO. Nerristown, Ps. In 12 or 32 or. Bottles Phone Atlantic 5768 UNITED Air Lines | 8 Reductions on Men’s Furnishings Stetson & Grosner Shoes Included 22,09 SHIRTS, 51_49 $2.25 & $2.50 PAJAMAS, 51.89 Reduced to ... 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Annapelis. in Drastic Clothing Reductions Here’s the way reductions go: For Suits and Overcoats—Group One—The $29.75 suits are now $24.75. Group Two—The $37.75 Group Three—$45 Grosner over- coats, $44.75 and $50 Kuppenheimer suits are $39.75. Group Four—$50 and $65 Kuppenheimer suits and overcoats, $44.75. A Group of the World'’s Finest Overcoats Reduced! and $44.75 suits are $31.75. One | thing that might be done advan- | | tageously is the elimination of most | of the press agents and publicity | driectors, whose name is legion and | of the ability of a public service to | get along without them was given | | Dr. Anson Phelps | she likely will asalt is even JRoVe .;Making their anniial AppéaYance’ | difficult for her ‘to find & good| at the Cathedral Sunday will be the | ington and the Rev. Theodore C. | chancellor of the | This Changing World ‘ Arrival of American Troops Credited With Saving Churchill’s Political Life By CONSTANTINE BROWN. Although it may have been a coincidencé, the arrival of Amer- ican troops in North Ireland tal- lied perfectly with Prime Minister Churchill's defense of his war policies and his bold announce- ment that he would ask the House of Commons for a vote of confidence at the end of the debate. Informed Washington diplo- matic quarters, which have kept in close touch with political de- velopments in Great Britain, say the American brigades unques- tionably saved Mr. Churchill's political life. The British, wor- ried .over the unfortunate devel- opments in most theaters of war, were heartened by the first ar- rival of the Yanks, who the Prime Minister said, were a small ad- vance guard of more troops, planes and warships to come to assist in the defense of the British Isles. The Libyan campaign in par- ticular has come under heavy fire from various political quarters in the United Kingdom. The British people had been told by their propaganda ministry that this campaign was of the utmost im- portance. They also had been led to believe that a repetition of the unfortunate occurrence of last vear, when Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell was rolled back to the Egyptian border after spectacular initial successes, would not occur again. Doubts Overcome. Even those. who listened skep- tically to the assurances of the Ministry of Information and its agents became convinced that victory would not be transformed into defeat. Their doubts were overcome when Mr. Churchill told the American Congress that the United States had not sent an adequate air force to Guam and the Philippines in order to be able to provide the British in Libya and other vital points out- side the Pacific with the neces- sary air force. When the mechanized divisions of German Gen. Erwin Rommel— which we, like the British, be- lieved to have been battered—re- sumed the offensive, the reaction it produced in Britain was far greater than here. ‘The news of Japanese succes- ses against the British and im- -perial. forces in the. Pacific; the. threat to Australia, which .many Englishmen now consider thes “hub of the empire;” and the Just Once Erver y Si ~ Months - GROSNER'S HALF-YEARLY | | | hood—pardon, his mane—was flax- “ en, so was his rumble seat—pardon, | again— I mean his tail. He even had the automobile counterpart of ; | white-wall tires. He had white socks | on all four legs. | My walking horse has three gaits jjus( as a car has three gears. His ‘ high is canter, low is the flat-footed . | walk, and his second is the running | walk. He'll cost me about $7 a $55 KILDAIRE TWEED OVERCOATINGS from Athlone, Ireland. 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Rommel could not be definitely annihilated, was it worth while risking such an im- portant stake like the South Pa- cific and the Indian Ocean for the sake of paper victories? There were feelings in British political and newspaper circles that the imperial and British forces in North Africa had achieved temporary “political vic- tories,” that far-seeing strategy 0 | g able to go. My was bieinl sacrificed for political horse is a Ten- expediency. y nessee walking Bad news from Burma, Singa- horse. If you pore and Australia, coupled with unpleasant news about unrest in India, followed Mr. Churchill's splendid political victory in the United States, and the situation became more unfavorable as far as war reports were concerned after his return to Britain. Henry McLemore. read yesterday's | column (and who in this country was | silly enough not to have read it?) I | explained why that breed of horse | is superior to all natural means of transportation. He can be ridden by any one with a pair of legs, no | matter how young or how old. He Whispering Campaign. | is—well, let me tell you about the thorse T bought and thatll explain | everything. I got him at the Harlinsdale Farm near here. I told Alex Harlin that my automobile was in its fifth year, that my tires were so thin I could look at them and tell the | pressure, and that what I wanted | was a horse as near like an auto- | mobile as I could get. So Alex showed me his latest models in Tennessee walkers. Hon- | estly, you can come pretty close to duplicating your automobile in these Mr. Churchill's political oppo- nents stdrted a whispering cam- paign against him, reminding the British people of,the Premier's previous military flops. Amster- dam, Galipoli, Norway, Greece and Crete were called back to the minds of the British and Mr. Churchill was described as the sole culprit in these disasters. This, of course, is not true. The ideas for those expeditions were Mr. Churchill's, but tne execution of them was not in his hands. nor can he be held responsible | NOrses. for the lack of preparedness of * k% ¥ the British forces which was the “What color do you prefer?” Alex result of years of indifference on | inquired. the part. of both government and | Having driven a sorrel sedan for people in Britain. But the man | years, I felt it was time for a who is entrusted with practically |change: a change to something brighter and gayer. I told Alex this “What about something in a two- | tone job?"” he asked. He brought out a piebald number | in black and white, and another in beige and white. unlimited power is always held responsible in democratic regimes. The situation of the British Premier and his cabinet appeared more than shaky last week. The timely arrival of a strong Amer- ican detachment—the vanguard of an A. E. F. to help win the war in Europe—has removed the dan- ger to Mr. Churchill's political leadership for the time being. It is hoped that the situation in the Pacific—after a few more inevitable and already discounted bits of bad news—will improve within the next few weeks. If it does. the policies of the present ! I liked them, but my past experi- |-ence with light-colored automobiles | made me shy off. I'd have to be | washing them or having them si- monized all the time “1 think I know what you want,” Alex said. “I have a model here that is smart enough in daytime and ultra-smart at night. A sort of limousine horse. A coal black.” | He brought him out. It was all | T could do to down force of habit | and not jump up and down on what should have been his running | board, examine his dashboard, and Question the arrangement of gad- gets around the steering wheel This Tennessee walker nearly got me. I could see myself in evening - fied.--Past errors are-easily for- clothes, riding him up to the Stork Club, .his coat matehing my dinner Jjacket, Still, he didn't quite capture my , British,government. will be justi- gotten when a nation sees present fancy. .There was something- lack- ing * o ox X “Perhaps you want a sports model.” Alex said. “A horse that | will take the place of a convertible | car.” | That was really what I wanted A horse with his -top down so to | speak; a horse that urged you to- | ward the open road, with windshield down, cutout open, and colors that would cause pedestrians to gape. % Alex brought one out. 8o help me, this was something that a Beale ! street blade would have picked out in a blackout. Most of him was chestnut, but his accessories were brilliant, his month to operate. He'll never need his ofl changed. He won't have to have seat covers in the summer. He'll never freeze up in the winter, He can be parked by fireplugs with- out getting a ticket. He has no room | for back-seat drivers. His battery never runs down. He doesn't have to have his valves ground. He's good for anywhere between |15 and 30 years. And, the models don't change. And, best of all, the finance com- panies haven't yet invaded the horse | fleld. | (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate. Inc) jDump"Truck Dirt Buries Driver Twice; He's Unhurt By the Associated Press. DENVER, Jan. 28.—A truck driver crawled into his vehicle’s big dump bin to keep warm. He finished up in a sweat. | A power-shovel operator dumped | & full bucket of dirt and gravel into | the truck. The driver was buried. | Fellow workers noticed the truck | didn’t pull away. and tipped up the | dump bin. Out poured the dirt | and under it the driver, buried a | second time. Before he could be dug out, the truck had to be moved. The wheels ran over his legs. ‘They were covered enough with dirt so they weren't crushed. ‘When finally pulled out splutter- ing, the driver, unharmed, was only bruised. He stayed on the job. Noise of Defense Work May Close School B> the Asscciated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—The war boom is interfering with education |at a certain New York school and so the Board of Education has a committee recommendation that the building be closed. It was all right in peacetime when a shipyard that borders the school on three sides wasn't so busy, but the committee says that, with the clamor of present activity, plus noise from a propeller repair shop -sicross the street, the pupils can't hear. themselves think, *39.75 *59.75