29780 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS December 7, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS PERCY L. GREAVES, JR., ON THE ments of official neutrality. On January 3, November 26, 1941, the Japanese, forced DAY OF INFAMY-PART I 1940, George Washington's wisdom was re­ by unfriendly American actions into an im­ called with: "The first President of the possible economic situation, were handed a United States warned us against entangling note making further negotiations impossi­ foreign alliances. The present President of ble. Our reading of Japanese codes had in­ HON. LARRY McDONALD the United States' subscribes to and follows formed our officials that it meant "things OF GEORGIA that precept." · are automatically going to happen," or as IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES During the unprecedented third· term our Secretary of State told our Secretary of Monday, December 7, 1981 campaign, we heard on October 23, 1940, War: "It is now in the hands of you and "The worst bombshell of fear • • • let loose <Secretary of the Navy) Knox-the Army e Mr. McDONALD. Mr. Speaker, it on this people is the accusation that this and the Navy.'' was 40 years ago today that Japan at­ Government of ours • • • without the knowl­ After the Pearl Harbor attack, Americans tacked Pearl Harbor. On December 13, edge of the Congress or of the people, has were told that it had come without any 1966, Percy Greaves had an article on secretly entered into agreements with for­ warning. The official story has been that it this subject published in National eign nations • • • I repeat again that I stand was a surprise attack that forced us into war on the Platform of our Party: 'We will not against our wishes. Review. For the benefit of my col­ participate in foreign wars and we will not leagues and interested historians I send our army, naval or air forces to fight in For years the charges that Roosevelt lied submit today, part I of the original foreign lands outside of the Americas except us into war were vehemently denied. In manuscript. Mr. Greaves' statement in case of attack.'" 1948, the great historian, Charles A. Beard, presented a preliminary case for the truth on those who will not give us the truth A week later it took the ~rm. "And while I am talking to you mothers· and fathers, I in "President Roosevelt and the Coming of of Pearl Harbor that he made in that the War, 1941-A Study of Appearances and article of 1966 is still germane today: give you one more assurance, I have said this before, but I shall say it again, and Realities.'' He was immediately reviled. There is now a new order of things in the again, and again. Your boys are not going to In an article in the August issue of the At­ land. Big Brother in Washington knows be sent into any foreign wars.'' lantic, he was accused of being "the darling best. He prints the money and calls the Even after the election, peace still had a of the McCormick-Patterson axis • • • the tune. He underwrites the history books and popular appeal. During a post-Christmas most indecent of Beard's numerous innuen­ hides the facts he does not want us to know. 1940 fireside chat we heard, "There is no does in his book are those respecting the As chief of the minority staff in the demand for sending an American Expedi­ Roberts Commission. Mr. Stimson suggested joint congressional investigation of tionary Force outside our own borders. Justice Roberts to head the Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor, Percy Greaves is in a po­ There is no intention by any member of Commission • • • Beard insinuates that Jus­ sition to let the American people know your Government to send such a force. You tice Roberts' appointment was part of a who really was to blame for Pearl can therefore, najl any talk about sending triple play to put Kimmel and Short 'out' armies to Europe as deliberate untruth.'' and conceal the iniquities of F.D.R. and Harbor. Part I follows: Note just a few of the undeniable facts. Stimson in a cloud of dust." DAY OF INFAMY August 15, 1940, American representatives These were the words of the court histori­ <By Percy L. Greaves, Jr.) started secret war plan negotiations with an, Samuel Eliot Morison. In 1942, Professor As Pearl Harbor Day-December 7, 1941- representatives of a foreign government at Morison was drafted from Harvard by Presi­ fades a quarter of a century into the para­ war. dent Roosevelt and placed on the public graphs of history, only a small part of our March 27, 1941, American representatives payroll as a Navy officer to write the official present population can recall how our coun­ signed a secret agreement that interwove "History of United States Naval Operations try was led, step by step, into World War II. our basic strategic war plans with those of in World War II" <15 vols.). Still fewer can remember, as adults, the pre­ another nation already at war. · Whereas Beard, searching for the truth, New Deal America in which government was April 10, 1941, an American destroyer was not permitted to see the papers he con­ largely limited to the protection of individ­ dropped depth charges on a foreign subma­ sidered pertinent, Morison, writing the offi­ uals in their right to enjoy the savings of rine much nearer its home base than was cial line, had no such problem. In the words their ancestors and the fruits of their own the destroyer. of the Secretary of the Navy, "All naval ac­ labor. May 26, 1941, the United States Navy se­ tivities, afloat and ashore, were directed to There is now a new order of things in the cretly promulgated to the top Navy Com­ make available to Captain Morison such land. Big Brother in Washington knows mand a Basic War Plan <WPL-46) based on records as he might desire to consult.'' best. He prints the money and calls the secret agreements previously made with for­ eign powers, referred to therein as "Associ­ Actually, the facts conform Beard's innu­ tune. He underwrites the history books and endo. Mr. Stimson bears a heavy responsi­ hides the facts he does not want us to know. ated Powers.'' The leader of the New Deal, as the new July 7, 1941, American armed forces, bility not only for the Pearl Harbor disaster, order was once known, was Franklin Delano which were not to be sent "outside our own but also for the Roberts Report which tried Roosevelt, our only four-term President borders", landed in Iceland. This was a to make Admiral Kimmel and General <1933-1945). In his own words, he "built up quick shift from preparations to land on the Short the scapegoats for responsibilities new instruments of public power." However, Azores. The U.S. Navy was soon escorting that rightly rested on those in Washington, in one of his first fireside chats to the foreign ships carrying war material across including Mr. Stimson himself. nation, May 7, 1933, he did assure us he was the Atlantic. Mr. Stimson not only suggested Justice "going to be honest at all times with the August 10, 1941, Britain's Prime Minister, Roberts, a pre-Pearl Harbor advocate of people of the country." Winston Churchill, at the Atlantic Confer­ "Aiding the Allies," as top investigator. but Later that year, F.D.R. informed us that ence off Argentia, Newfoundland, secretly he also suggested the two Army members. American foreign policy was "from now asked the President to send an ultimatum to This gave him a majority of the five-man on • • • opposed to armed intervention." Japan. Presidential Commission. In writing his sug­ On his signing of the Neutrality Act, August August 17, 1941, the President cooperated gestions to F.D.R., he added: "Marshall and 31, 1935, we heard, "It is the policy of this by presenting the Japanese Ambassador I united on all the foregoing suggestions Government to avoid being drawn into wars with a somewhat weaker version, cabling after very careful consideration by each of between other Nations." Churchill the next day: "The statement I us.'' When running for a second term, he pon­ made to him was no less vigorous than and One of Mr. Stimson's nominees was tificated, "I speak from a long experience­ was substantially similar to the statement Joseph T. McNarney, a recently promoted the effective maintenance of American neu­ we had discussed.'' Brigadier General and right hand of Chief trality depends today, as in the past, on the September 11, 1941, the President an­ of Staff George C. Marshall. Officially, the wisdom and determination of whoever at nounced orders to the Navy to shoot at war­ appointment was suggested to give the Com­ the moment occupy the offices of President ships of nations without possessions in the mission an air expert. It was also hinted and Secretary of State." Americas. that the General was not personally suspect The outbreak of a European War in 1939 November 10, 1941, the U.S. Navy started as he was out of Washington at the time of witnessed no change in his public state- convoying foreign troops on American ships. the attack. D This symbol represents the time of day during the House proceedings, e.g., D 1407 is 2:07 p.m. e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the floor. December 7, 1981 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 29781 In fact, General McNarney, as a Colonel, Not satisfied with his own travesties on Every Navy message states its date and had acted as General Marshall's junior rep­ total truth, the retired Admiral tells us: time in six digits-the first two represent resentative when signing the March 27, "The best book by far on the question of the day of the month, the second two the 1941, secret military agreements with the why we were surprised at Pearl Harbor is hour of the day, and the last two the min­ British.