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...RISING SUN IN THE PACIFIC (411 pp.)-Samuel Eliot Morison-Atlantic-Little, Brown...
...boards or courts of inquiry have produced 40 volumes of printed matter on the Pearl Harbor disaster of Dec. 7, 1941. For a crisp account of the event, its causes and consequences, laymen may put their trust in frosty Captain Morison, U.S.N.R. (on inactive duty). The Rising Sun in the Pacific is a clear record of a complex of failures...
Rising Sun is the third volume in Morison's naval history of the war, and the first of eight on the war against Japan. Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer of Columbus and professor of history at Harvard, Morison got his big job from his friend Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 and has had all the Navy's help in carrying it out. He uses official facts (including Japanese naval records) and his own judgment...
...Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes to issue a temporary order against...
Some teachers, like Samuel E. Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, never care particularly for cross-town work. His courses in Colonial and Naval History, among the top offerings in the Department, were denied to 'Cliffedwellers except during the period when Morison's daughter was an undergraduate there. Many courses, although offered to girls, were taught by substitutes or younger teachers...