Senator Ferguson (R., Mich.) said yesterday the State Department should
supplement Congress' Pearl Harbor report with "diplomatic facts."
Ferguson said he was sure the joint committee which reported its
findings on the December 7, 1941, debacle last night did not get
all the information to which the public is en-titled about international
negotiations bearing on the inquiry.
But the Michigan Republican said the six-month-long hearing went as
far as a congressional committee could go. He foresaw no attempt
to reopen it now or in the near future, he told a reporter.
(Ferguson had signed a minority report differing with the majority
on who was to blame.)
The minority report, also signed by Senator Brewster, (R., Me.)
contended that "the whole question of whether or not it would have
been possible to avoid war by proper diplomatic action and thus avert
the Pearl Harbor tragedy was left largely unexplored."
"We did not want the people and historians to believe we had all
the facts," Ferguson said.