Excellent point, Anthony! CES
----- Original Message ----- From: Anthony Calabrese <[email protected]> To: List Churchill <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:56:57 -0000 (UTC) Subject: RE: [ChurchillChat] Pearl Harbor. Recently reported: is it correct? One other thing to keep in mind. Had Churchill known, he would have warned the US. Why do I so strongly believe this? Because when Churchill did have warning of an impending attack (the USSR), Churchill warned the country in question (whose leader promptly ignored it as he believed Churchill's message was a capitalist plot to start a war). From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Pearl Harbor. Recently reported: is it correct? Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 05:55:22 -0400 NO...not a snip. This is more of the conspiracy folks running amok. Bletchley Park had made little progress against the Japanese codes--and their understandable focus was on Germany in any case. While we had broken many Japanese codes, we surely didn't have all of them. There are many books on this topic--and some are wholly misleading. Roberta Wholstetter's PEARL HARBOR: WARNING AND DECISION, though an old book (early 1960s) remains one of the best available studies. The key problem was that none of the decoded Japanese messages--even after the war--represented a clear "smoking gun" that the attack was coming. For much of the raw material--the messages themselves, plus good analysis--see THE "MAGIC" BACKGROUND OF PEARL HARBOR issued by DOD in seven cloth-bound volumes in 1977. Chris Sterling (Washington Society for Churchill) From: John Mather Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 12:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ChurchillChat] Pearl Harbor. Recently reported: is it correct? Recently reported: "President Roosevelt did not know beforehand about Pearl Harbor because Winston Churchill, who did know because the British broke the code, did not tell President Roosevelt because Mr. Churchill wanted us in the war." Is there a shred of evidence for this assertion????? John H. Mather MD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
