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and Navy departments, in Pearl Harbor, circled around and around, but
not so quickly as the spinning propellers of Nagumo's ships. At 5:30, two
cruisers catapulted off a pair of scout planes to make sure the Americans
were still there.
The clerks at the embassy had straggled back to work between 9:30
and 10. They began decoding the longer cables first, as experience had
shown that these were usually the more important. At the same time, the
embassy's first secretary, Katzuso Okumura, was typing up the first 13
parts of the ultimatum. He had been chosen because the Foreign Office
had forbidden the use of an ordinary typist in the interests of secrecy
and he was the only senior official who could operate a typewriter at all
decently. At about 11:30, code clerk Juichi Yoshida adjusted the
Alphabetical Typewriter to the proper keys and typed out a short code
message. To the consternation of the entire staff, it turned out to be an
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