This book began as a venture to collect official and unofficial
documents relating to the interval of American military rule. There
proved to be thousands, the writings of Presidents, executive
officers, and congressmen, naval and military personnel, governors,
settlers, and citizens-routine, familiar, wheedling, seductive,
blustering, commanding. As the quantity grew, they seemed eager to
be heard. But the documents exhibit the traits of their makers.
Containing neither the whole truth nor nothing but the truth, they
offer many-sided versions of what people believed or wanted others
to accept; they must be taken with a grain of salt. Long, sometimes
garbled, and always incomplete, the record requires assessment, a
referee to appraise the evidence and form his own imperfect
conclusions. And any curious or dissenting reader may, by
consulting the numerous cited sources, make his own
interpretations. References, whenever possible, have been made to
materials in some printed form, leading an inquirer to a vast array
of historical evidence. Everything herein happened, or so the
record tells, and if an assumption has been made, it is that men,
issues, and events can be interesting in their own right, without
exaggeration. "To exaggerate," a knowing urban child recently
observed, "means you put in something to make it more exciting"
(Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1978).
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