TheCodeBreakers
In Tokyo, Grew was awakened at 7 a.m. by the tele-
phone, summoning him to a meeting at 7:30 with Togo. On Grew's
arrival, the Foreign Minister gave him the Emperor's reply to the
President. He thanked Grew for his cooperation and saw him off at the
door. Four hours had elapsed since the attack had begun, but Togo
never mentioned it. Shortly thereafter, Grew learned of the outbreak of
hostilities from an extra of the Yomiuri Shimbun hawked outside his
window. The Japanese soon closed the embassy gates.
The Japanese in Washington destroyed their last machine and codes
after encoding a final message that they were so doing—the last message
sent on the Washington-Tokyo circuit, and read, of course, by the
American codebreakers. But in Honolulu, police guarding the consulate
after the attack smelled papers burning and saw smoke coming from
behind a door. Fearing a conflagration, they broke in and found the
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