a chain that helped to end it. Germany was now forced to communicate with the World beyond the encircling Entente by radio or over cables controlled by her enemies. She thus delivered into the hands of her foes her most secret and confidential plans, provided only that they could remove the jacket of code and cipher in which Germany had encased them. It Was an opportunity for which England was unprepared, but of which she promptly availed herself. On that first day of the war, the director of naval intelligence, Rear Admiral Henry F. Oliver, walked to lunch With the only man at the Admiralty to take any interest in cryptology, the director of naval education, Sir Alfred p Ewing. A few months before, Ewing had devised what he later called a "futile" ciphering mechanism, and he had spoken to Oliver about new methods of constructing ciphers. Oliver mentioned that some naval and
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