... were warnings from the twelfth Naval District and from General Ter Poorten and Brigadier General Elliot Thorpe. By December 4 Roosevelt and a small group of advisors, including Secretary of the navy Frank Knox, Stimson, and Marshall, were faced with three options. They could announce to Japan and the world word of the approaching Kido Butai; this would indubitably have forced the Japanese ... a general way, that nothing specific was said in them. Analysts thought that Japan was going to strike a lot closer to home. Another factor brought up in their article is about Churchill. Some beli...

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