Letter from Former President Harry S. Truman to Tsukasa Nitoguri, Chairman of Hiroshima City Council
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OCR Page 1 of 3March 12, 1958
Dear Mr. Chairman:
Your courteous letter, enclosing the resolution of the
Hiroshima City Council, was highly appreciated. The
feeling of the people of your city is easily understood,
and I am not in any way offended by the resolution which
their city council passed.
However, it becomes necessary for me to remind the
City Council, and perhaps you also, of some historical
events.
In 1941, while a peace conference was in progress in
Washington between representatives of the Emperor of
Japan and the Secretary of State of the United States,
representing the President and the Government of the
United States, a naval expedition of the Japanese Gov-
ernment approached the Hawaiian Islands, a territorial
part of the United States, and bombed our Pearl Harbor
Naval Base. It was done without provocation, without
warning and without a declaration of war.
Thousands of young American sailors and civilians were
murdered by this unwarranted and unheralded attack,
which brought on the war between the people of Japan
and the people of the United States. It was an unnecessary
and terrible act.
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