he United States."On November 7, 1941, a month before Pearl Harbor, Adm. Stark, referring to this nondeclared war, wrote to Adm. Kimmel, "Whether the country knows it or not, we are at war.” (Morgenstern 88).There is so much more evidence that Roosevelt knew about the taking place of the Day of Infamy. Bachrach gives information on the strongest critic of Roosevelt from historian Harry Elmer Barnes. Far more than any other detractor, Marnes saw the president as responsible for the events of December 7, 1941. He believes that the president not only read secret Japanese messages regularly but was also aware that a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor could occur any time after November 26, 1941. Yet, the president...deliberately failed to send clear warnings to his commanders in Hawaii (35).Barnes also states that Roosevelt had a burning desire to enter the war. Barnes believes that Roosevelt wanted to use the “back door” of a Japanese attack on Hawaii to anger the American people enough to want to enter the war (35).One of the most intriguing issues in the Pearl harbor mystery involves the use of secret information. How much the government knew is actually quite peculiar. How much they understood, how precise their information was and how quickly it could be made available in a useful form are question pivotal to the unraveling of the Pearl Harbor story (Bachrach 90). Spies from all over gave us information from Japan. For example, according to Morgenstern, a man named Joseph C. Grew was the American ambassador to Japan. He sent the American State Department a ver early warning of Japanese intentions. He learned from a Peruvian diplomat, through a Japanese cook working in an embassy in Tokyo, that Japan intended to attack us. This information was sent to Washington on January 27, 1941...and the American government dismissed the story as “idle gossip” (92). What the Japanese government did not k...
