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...office at the Japanese consulate in Honolulu on the night of Dec. 6, 1941, Vice Consul Morimura, 27, glanced at this message, buzzed for his code clerk, ordered the report sent to Tokyo and shortly went off to bed. At 0120 hours the next morning. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of a Japanese task force, received the relayed message from Tokyo. It was the last word required...
Nagumo before mounting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Vice Consul Morimura had done his job well...
...Fuentes were battling the regular army. He found no sign of direct Castro support to the rebels as Ydígoras claimed. When he tried to dispatch his story, Ydígoras' police tossed Rosenhouse into solitary for five hours in a windowless adobe cell. After the U.S. consul pleaded Rosenhouse's case, Ydígoras finally hauled the correspondent onto the carpet for a bit of bland but pointed advice: follow the government line-or else. The advice came a little late. Even as Ydígoras was delivering his lecture, a duplicate of Rosenhouse...
...weeks later, Foreign Secretary Lord Home got a reply from the British Consul General in Muscat detailing his findings: "The Sultanate has not, since 1937, possessed a band. None of the Sultan's subjects, so far as I am aware, can read music, which the majority regard as sinful. The manager of the British Bank of the Middle East, who can, does not possess a clarinet. Even if he did, the dignitary who, in the absence of the Sultan, is the recipient of ceremonial honors and who might be presumed to recognize the tune is somewhat deaf. Fortunately...
...Gramophone at an evening reception given by the Military Secretary of the Sultan, who inadvertently sat on the record afterwards and broke it." The Foreign Office had no comment, but a Navy man said admiringly: "They do write good letters down in Muscat." Fact is the British Consul General has little else to do, apart from requesting manumission for escaping slaves, who by tradition become entitled to freedom if they can manage to enter his compound and clasp both hands around his flagpole...