Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor Committee turned from diplomatic to military witnesses. Two facts were quickly established: 1) the Japs-sometimes through carelessness, sometimes through code messages-gave the U.S. much more advance notice of the Pearl Harbor attack than has been generally realized; 2) thanks to stupidity in Washington and in the field, the U.S. took the least possible advantage of the warnings...
...stand went balding, bumbling Major General Sherman Miles, wearer of four rows of ribbons, Assistant Chief of Staff for Military Intelligence in the crucial days of 1941. Into the record went a long series of Japanese code messages intercepted before Dec. 7. Most significant: instructions sent by Tokyo on Sept. 24, ordering a spy in Honolulu to divide Pearl Harbor into five sectors, report on the ships at anchor in each...
...largely through brisk talk and lively G.I. gags and through the human, antiheroic picture he paints of soldier life. But though he can squeeze out interest, he cannot distill feeling or significance. The theme of his play is a sense of comradeship which is not just part of a code and which tough, cynical soldiers can no more escape than they can explain. But Playwright Brown cannot explain it for them-or even make it seem real...
Rupture. A day later Tokyo virtually admitted (in another code) that all negotiations were at an end: "Well, you two Ambassadors have exerted superhuman efforts . . . but the negotiations will be de facto ruptured. This is inevitable. However, I do not wish you to give the impression that the negotiations are broken off. Merely say to them [i.e., Roosevelt & Hull] that you are awaiting instructions. . . . Say that we have always demonstrated a long-suffering and conciliatory attitude...
...legal difficulties were no less imposing. The Allies had to make the law for the trials; there were few precedents. The Anglo-Saxon jurists were used to jury trials of men presumed innocent until proved guilty. The French had legal customs based in part on the sterner Roman code. The Russians were used to even sterner totalitarian ways...