Word: jap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rising Sun flag still floats over villages in our area. Jap officers demand written authorization of unit commanders before allowing American troops to take souvenirs, rifles, swords, etc. Jap officers and civilians ride around in automobiles while American troops, with a limited number of trucks and jeeps, must walk...
...Jap messages decoded by "Magic" were seen by only a few top brass hats, were not always shown to the President, were not sent to commanders in the field at all. (The Army & Navy were afraid the Japs might learn their secret...
...Neither Army nor Navy Intelligence placed any credence in a report from Tokyo by Ambassador Grew, in January 1941, that the Peruvian Minister had learned "from many sources, including a Japanese source" that the Japs planned to open the war with a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. (Intelligence officers somehow figured out that no Jap in a position to know would be so stupid...
...Navy high command warned Admiral Husband E. Kimmel on Dec. 3 that Jap diplomats and consuls all over the world were destroying their papers and codes. General Miles did not ask the Navy to pass this message along to General Short at Honolulu. Said he: "That was not considered necessary. ... I believed that the Navy messages were being transmitted to the Army in Hawaii and vice versa...
Married. Emily ("Micky") Hahn, 40, freethinking, cigar-smoking, best-selling authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum, China to Me); and Major Charles Boxer, 41, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941 and war-long Jap captive, father of Emily's four-year-old daughter Carola; she for the first time,* he for the second; in New Haven, Conn. Said Bride Emily: "I believe in the law, marriage and monogyny. . . . Every child needs a father who is at home. If Charles had died in prison camp I would have married some one else...