TheCodeBreakers
In 1929,
Henry L. Stimson, then Secretary of State, withdrew State Department
support from the Black Chamber on ethical grounds, dissolving it. The
Army decided to consolidate and enlarge its codemaking and
codebreaking activities. Accordingly, it created the Signal Intelligence
Service, with Friedman as chief, and, in 1930, hired three junior
cryptanalysts and two clerks.
The following year, a Japanese general suddenly occupied Manchuria
and set up a puppet Manchu emperor, and the government of the island
empire of Nippon fell into the hands of the militarists. Their avarice for
power, their desire to enrich their have-not nation, their hatred for white
Occidental civilization, started them on a decade-long march of conquest.
They withdrew from the League of Nations. They began beefing up the
Army. They denounced the naval disarmament treaties and began an
almost frantic ship-building race