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the ten-hour days, was stalled for the required time, and was finally
delivered at 10:30 p.m., Tokyo time.
Grew immediately arranged for a meeting with Togo and, when the
message had been decoded, drove to Togo's official residence at 12:15
a.m. He requested—as is the right of all ambassadors—an audience with
the head of state to present the message, then read it aloud to Togo and
gave him a copy. Togo promised to present the matter to the Throne and,
despite the lateness of the hour, telephoned the Lord Keeper of the Privy
Seal for an audience. Ministers of state would be received at any hour,
and the audience was arranged for 3 a.m. Togo began having the
message translated.
It was then about 5:30 a.m., December 7, in Hawaii. The Japanese
task force was only 250 miles north of Pearl Harbor. More than 2,000
Americans with less than three hours to live slept or played in blissful
ignorance of that fact. The hands of clocks in the Foreign Office in Tokyo,
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