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CONFIDENTIAL
CONF IDENTIAL
CONF IDENTIAL
The following statement by the President must be held in
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STRICT CONFIDENCE until the hour of release.
NOTE: Release is automatic at 1:00 P.M., E.W.T:, today,
Wednesday, August 29, 1945.
CHARLES G. ROSS
Secretary to the President
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I have here reports on the Pearl Harbor disaster. One is from
the Army and one is from the Navy. The Navy report gives a "Finding of
Facts" by a Navy Court of Inquiry. Attached to this Finding of Facts are
indorsements by the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, Rear Admiral
T. L. Gatch; Admiral E. J. King, Chief of Naval Operations, and the
Secretary of the Navy. You will find a summation of the findings in the
final indorsement by the Secretary of the Navy at the end of the document.
From the Army we have the report of the Army Pearl Harbor
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Board and, bound separately, a statement by the Secretary of War.
:
Certain criticisms of the Chief of Staff, General Marshall, appear in
the report of the Army Pearl Harbor Board. You will notice in the
Secretary's statement, beginning on page nineteen, that he takes sharp
issue with this criticism of General Marshall, stating that the criticism
"is entirely unjustified". The conclusion of the Secretary of War is
that General Marshall acted throughout this matter with his usual "great
skill, energy and efficiency." I associate myself wholeheartedly with
this expression by the Secretary of War.
Indeed I have the fullest confidence in the skill, energy and
efficiency of all our war leaders, both Army and Navy.