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exactly when President Roosevelt received the first thriteen
parts of the Japanese message on December 6, 1945 and the
fourteenth and final part on December 7, 1941, as well as
the intercepted messages instructing the Japanese
Delegation to burn codes and records, etc.; wioth respect
to the so-called "one-clock message" which announced the
formal breakoff of diplomatic relations, whom the
Presiodent saw and when and what he did.  Mr. Gesell stated
that whiel it appears from the investigation already made
of the Army, Navy and State Departments files, that
confidential reports and documents were sent to the
President, no record was made of just what was sent to the
White House.  He woudl liek to know if any copies were made
of any such documents.  Miss Tully will check to see if by
chance any such mesages or copies thereof were kept in Mr.
Roosevelt recied all of his information throught the Army,
Navye and State Department, the Committee woudl liek to
know if there were any ohter sources of information
available to the President, and if so what they were, adn
anything in the files relating to them.  In this latter
connection, it is thought by the Committee that the
Churchhill-Roosevelt correspondance may be pertinent and
any special reports or correspondence between President
Quezon and Fracis B. Sayre. And President Roosevelt.  The
Committee woudl also liek to know whether or not there is
any evidence in the files to show that PResident Roosevelt
sent any sp[ecial envoy to Japan who may have made reports
directly without goign through any of the recognized
departments.  Finally, Admiral Richardson, the former
commander at Peal Harbor, has stated that he was opposed to
the basing of the fleet at Pearl Harbor.  The
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