TheCodeBreakers
Knox and the acting
manager of Knox's Chicago Daily News, the Secretary read the 13 parts.
He agreed with Kramer, that, even incomplete, it pointed to a termination
of negotiations. He went into another room to make some telephone calls,
and when he came out he told Kramer to bring the latest MAGIC to a
meeting that had been arranged for 10 a.m. the next morning with
Stimson and Hull in the State Department. (Bratton had delivered the 13
parts to the night duty officer at State at 10 p.m., admonishing him to
get them to Hull at once.) Knox returned the intercepts to Kramer, who
then went to the home of Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson, director of
naval intelligence, where Beardall and Army intelligence chief Brigadier
General Sherman Miles happened to be dinner guests. All three studied
the intercept in a room away from the other guests, Beardall reading
from an extra copy that Kramer had. They too seemed to feel that
negotiations were coming to an end.
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