TheCodeBreakers
dawn one of the eventful days of the history of the world." Even as he
pondered, Japanese planes were circling over Pearl Harbor.
In stark contrast to the calm stillness of Tokyo was the hectic bustle
of the Japanese embassy on Massachusetts Avenue.
Soon after the one o'clock message had been decoded, Okumura
finished typing the first 13 parts. But he decided that this rough draft
did not suit the formality of a document to be delivered to the Secretary
of State. He began retyping it from the very beginning, being assisted
now by a junior interpreter, Enseki. His task was complicated by two
messages sent up from the code room, one ordering the insertion of a
sentence that had been accidentally
dropped, one changing a word. This required the retyping of several
pages, including one just completed with a great deal of trouble. At about
12:30, the code room finally gave him the 14th part of the ultimatum,
but Okumura was nowhere near finished with the first 13
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