 | Mark Skinner Watson - World War, 1939-1945 - 1950 - 588 pages
.... . Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot be avoided, the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This policy should not be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might jeopardize... | |
 | Ray S. Cline - World War, 1939-1945 - 1951 - 456 pages
...TRANSITION INTO WAR Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided the...States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This policy should not, repeat not, be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might... | |
 | Louis Morton - History - 1953 - 664 pages
...offer to continue. Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided the...States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This policy should not, repeat not, be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might... | |
 | Roberta Wohlstetter - History - 1962 - 454 pages
...wording of the first sentence in the passage just quoted was later translated into the Army warning: "If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided,...States desires that Japan commit the first overt act." The substance of the two sentences is almost the same, but the warning has always been criticized for... | |
 | Michael Slackman - History - 1991 - 372 pages
...offer to continue. Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided the...States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This policy should not, repeat not, be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might... | |
 | Aleutian Islands (Alaska) - 1992 - 474 pages
...offer to continue. Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot repeat cannot be avoided the...States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. This policy should not repeat not be construed as restricting you to a course of action that might... | |
 | James William Morley - Political Science - 1995 - 492 pages
...General Walter C. Short and officers under him in Hawaii were issued the following order: "If hostilities cannot be avoided the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act Period."333 This order, Marshall testified, "was a direct instruction from the President."334 Brigadier... | |
 | Richard Rhodes - History - 2012 - 890 pages
...offer to continue. Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot be avoided the...States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. . . . Measures should be carried out so as not, repeat not, to alarm civil population or disclose intent.... | |
 | Robert A. Theobald, John T. Flynn - Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 - 1996 - 132 pages
...conclusion 89 will always be a mystery to me. To add to our difficulties the messages also directed that, "If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot be avoided, the United States desires that Japan desires commit the first overt act..." The message of November 27, 1941, from the War Department to... | |
 | Robert B. Stinnett - History - 1999 - 402 pages
...Frontiers, a sea and coastal region that extended from Panama to the Territory of Alaska. Stark was direct: IF HOSTILITIES CANNOT REPEAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED THE...STATES DESIRES THAT JAPAN COMMIT THE FIRST OVERT ACT. Admiral Stark's revised message, with its padding, was received at Pearl Harbor after 2:40 PM November... | |
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Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot repeat cannot be avoided the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act. 
