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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: AWACS and Pearl Harbour.
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Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 23:05:30 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 28 23:05:30 1986
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In article <401@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>John Toland's "Infamy" (Pearl Harbor and its aftermath) details how the U.S.
>was quite aware of the Japanese fleet approaching Pearl.  There were radio
>intercepts from ships of the fleet itself in addition to the U.S. rading
>Japanese secret traffic.  Pearl Harbor was purposely not warned because FDR
>didn't wish the Japanese attack to be called off.  The resulting coverup
>makes WaterGate look like child's play.  Go ahead and read the book.

The book is an interpretation of available historical data.  It may or may
not represent the situation as seen by FDR and his Cabinet.  Some analysts
see the American side of the envents leading up to Pearl Harbour as a failure
in communications and lack of understanding of the Japanese, others see it as
intentional.

I think Toland's books are pretty good, and would recommend them for one
perspective, but there is no shortage of other good material on the war years.

Anyway, the interesting issues are not how we got into the war, but how we
got out of it, and made the transition to the current miserable state of the
world.
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|caip}!cbmvax!grr
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