M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, in which what the British colonizers stigmatize as `Indian muddle' seems to be the final cause for unsuccessful intercultural communication between East and West. Such implied intertextuality seems to relegate Romania to the status of a former colony. The final strong images and verdicts on Romania from both narratives seem to corroborate the fact that they belong to what Cronin (2000, p. 37) calls `ocular travels', i.e. travels in which the authors' persuasive discourse makes the home
The ATTACHÉ should have been advised by the Navy Ministry regarding this." Five days earlier, the cryptanalysts had read Tokyo's detailed instructions on how to destroy the PURPLE machine in an emergency. These two code- destruction messages appeared to be just precautionary measures in a tense situation, and this impression was strengthened by the second message of December 1. It seemed to virtually announce a Japanese invasion of British and Dutch possessions and to relegate conflict with the United States to a subsequent date: "The four offices in London, Hong-kong, Singapore and Manila have been instructed to abandon the use of the code machines and to dispose of them. The machine in Batavia has been returned to Japan. Regardless of the contents of my circular message #2447 [which MAGIC did not have], the U.S. (office) retains the machines and the machine codes." American officials breathed easier. The messages appeared to give the United States a bit