sep 24, 1945 - Life Magazine 1945, Sept 24 -
"Pearl Harbor - The facts were known to
Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas
Dewey in 1944. He withheld his fore, but now
is the time to assess their meaning"
by John Chamberlain
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Life Magazine 1945, Sept 24 - "Pearl Harbor - The facts were known to Republican Presidential Candidate Thomas Dewey in 1944. He withheld his fore, but now is the time to assess their meaning" by John Chamberlain
"For a long time the official explanation of Pearl Harbor was that we were slugged without warning when we where innocently going about our business. Slugged we were, and there is no need to palliate the Japanese behavior. But to say the we were slugged without warning is a radical distortion of the truth; Roosevelt, the Chief Executive of the nation and Commander and Chief of its Army and Navy, Knew in advance that the Japanese were going to attack us. There is even ground for suspicion that he elected to bring the crisis to a head when it came.."
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