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redraftings, had completed the American reply to Japan's proposal. It
called upon Japan to withdraw all forces from China and Indochina and
in return promised to unfreeze Japanese funds and resume trade.
Nothing was said about oil. On November 26, the day that he handed it
to Nomura, Tokyo circularized its major embassies with an open code.
While the winds code envisioned abolition of all communication with the
embassies, this new code—called the INGO DENPO ("hidden word") code —
was intended for a less critical situation. It seems to have been arranged
at the request of the consul in Singapore in case code but not plain
language telegrams were prohibited. It set up such equivalences as
ARIMURA = code communications prohibited; HATTORI = relations between
Japan and (name of country) are not in accordance with expectation;3
KODAMA = Japan; KUBOTA = U.S.S.R.; MINAMI =U.S.A.; and so on. "In order
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