TheCodeBreakers
KYOKAINGAKU SKYUU DENPOO ARITASI STOP TOGO. Kramer
recognized KOYANAGI as the codeword for England, and HATTORI as a
codeword whose meaning he did not recall. He consulted his code list
and saw that it meant Relations between Japan and {name of country) are
not in accordance with expectation. But in his haste he overlooked that
the common Japanese word minami, which means "south," had an INGO
DENPO meaning of U.S.A. He interpreted the message as "Please have
director Koyagani send a wire stating the sum which has been decided to
be spent on the South Hattori Memorial Library in order that this
business may be wound up." Consequently, he dictated a decode that
omitted United States: Relations between Japan and England are not in
accordance with expectation. Yeoman Bryant inserted this and three
other minor messages that had come over from the Army into the folders.
Kramer meanwhile made a navigator's time circle that indicated that one