Deanna Spingola’s guest is Joshua Blakeney, co-founder of Non-Aligned Media. He talked about the book he just recently edited, Japan Bites Back: Documents Contextualizing Pearl Harbor.

Ezra Pound broadcast at least 120 original editorial and manifestos over Radio Rome in Italy from 1941 to 1943. We are reprinting two of these broadcasts to encourage discussion of them and to point readers toward the entire book. The full text of 120 broadcasts is available in Ezra Pound Speaking: Radio Speeches of World War II, Edited by Leonard W. Doob on Greenwood Press, 1978.
From June 4 to 7, 1942, the U.S. Navy ambushed and then devastated a Japanese strike force near Midway Island … On June 7, six months to the day after Pearl Harbor, a front-page report in the Chicago Tribune hinted at the astonishing secret that enabled the American victory … Savvy readers knew that the dozen paragraphs of intricate details had to mean Washington had cracked Japan’s secret naval code … Opening this testimony [now] could explain how Johnston learned one of this nation’s most valuable secrets, how perilous the Navy thought the leak was, and why the investigation halted; the filing alludes to the possibility that the Navy didn’t want to tell grand jurors about its codebreaking coup.
Read more: Chicago Tribune

