But if the "It"s in (16) and (17) are not pronouns of laziness, why should we think that "He" in (15) is one? Also, definite descriptions can themselves be anaphors: (18) Just one turtle came down the street. The turtle was running as if it were being pursued by a maniac. (19) A rabbit appeared in our yard after dinner. The rabbit seemed unconcerned. It is plausible enough to take "The turtle" in (18) as abbreviating "The turtle that came down the street," in which case (18) does not threaten Russell's analysis. But the same will not do for (19): if we try to suppose that "The rabbit" abbreviates "The rabbit that appeared in our yard after dinner," then by the usual uniqueness clause, (19) would entail that at most one rabbit Definite descriptions 29 appeared in the yard, and--notice--(19) itself does not entail that, but (since
Rochefort. In Washington that Wednesday, the Signal Intelligence Service solved a PURPLE message from Tokyo—and the readers of MAGIC, who only two days earlier had been lulled by the supposition that Japan might temporarily spare the United States, were stunned by the realization that the arrow of war might be loosed momentarily. For the message ordered the Washington embassy to "burn all [codes] but those now used with the machine and one copy each of o code [PA-K2] and abbreviating code [LA]. . . . Stop at once using one code machine unit and destroy it completely . . . wire . . . HARUNA." Under Secretary of State Welles saw it and felt that "the chances had diminished from one in a thousand to one in a million that war could then be avoided." When the President's naval aide, Beardall, brought the message to Roosevelt, he said in substance, "Mr. President, this is a very significant dispatch." After the Chief
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