DIVIDED COMMAND BLAMED
Pearl Harbour Calamity (Received May 18, 11,55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 18. Mr. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during the Great War, told tlie Post-War Policy Committee of the House of Representatives that the Japanese could liot have made December 7, 194.1, a day of infainy .if the general and the admiral charged with the duty of preparedness and vigilance, had not peen asleep at the switch at Pearl Harbour. He added: “The Pearl Harbour calamity was due to the divided command in the Hawaiian area, nnd is convincing proof that perfect cohesion of fighting forces must replace two arms working separately and without co-ordination. The jealousy and friction between the two armed services in Hawaii and elsewhere was the old story. History is replete with squabbles between army and navy which prolongs wars.”
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 198, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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137DIVIDED COMMAND BLAMED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 198, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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