OTHERS REFERRED TO IN THIS BOOK

Allen, A. M. R., Capt., USN, naval observer at Singapore and American delegate to the Singapore staff conference.

Alsop, Joseph, newspaper columnist.

Andrews, Frank M., Lieut. Gen., head of United States Caribbean defense command.

Arnold, H. H., Gen., commanding general, Army Air Forces.

Ballantine, Arthur A., Assistant Secretary of State.

NOTES

This book was completed before publication by the Government Printing Office of the official proceedings of the Joint Congressional Committee to investigate the attack upon Pearl Harbor. Where the transcript of committee proceedings was available, citations of testimony are referred to the transcript; otherwise, references are to the specific dates of hearings on which testimony was given. These may be checked against the daily hearings as published by the Government Printing Office.

“1. The government of the United States and the government of Japan, both being solicitous for the peace of the Pacific, affirm that their national polices are directed toward lasting and extensive peace throughout the Pacific area and that they have no territorial designs therein.

“2. They undertake reciprocally not to make from regions in which they have military establishments any advance by force or threat of force into any areas in Southeastern or Northeastern Asia or in the southern or the northern Pacific area.

INDEX

ABCD powers, 104–16; America’s commitments to, 304–7; and American showdown with Japan, 187; application of “winds” message to, 220; denial of, by majority report, 367–68; Stimson and Knox on, 308

Aircraft carriers, disposition of, at time of Pearl Harbor attack, 12, 13, 27, 32, 248–49

Airplanes, for Pearl Harbor defense, short-age of, 92–93

Alsop, Joseph, on nondeclared war in Atlantic, 94–95

American fleet, see Fleet, Pacific fleet

Essentials of Economics

A BRIEF SURVEY OF PRINCIPLES AND POLICIES

by

FAUSTINO BALLVÉ

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Foreword

Faustino Ballvé was one of those rare scholars who instinctively avoid the pitfalls of specialization; who have the gift of integrating the divisions of learning simply, yet without oversimplification. This was the talent that gave the leaders of the Renaissance their stature. Of Professor Ballvé it could be said, as in the characterization that gives a contemporary play about Sir Thomas More its title, that he was indeed “a Man for All Seasons.”

Preface to the
English-Language Edition

Preface to the
Spanish-Language Edition

Here is a book that answers an essential need. Simple, clear, and intelligible, it is a book that had to be written, and, now that it has been written, it deserves to be and will be read.