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Marshall could say of this "priceless asset," this most complete and up-
to-the-minute intelligence that any nation had ever had concerning a
probable enemy, this necromantic gift of the gods of which one could
apparently never have enough, that "There was too much of it."
2. One Day of Magic: II
INOctober the cabinet of Prince Konoye fell, and the Emperor summoned
General Hideki Tojo to form a new government. One of the first acts of
the new Foreign Minister, Shigenori Togo, was to call in the chief of the
cable section. Togo, remembering a book that Herbert O. Yardley had
written disclosing his 1920 solution of Japanese diplomatic codes, asked
the cable chief, Kazuji Kameyama, whether their current diplomatic
communications were secure. Kameyama reassured him. "This time," he
said, "it's all right."
With the assumption of total power by the militarists under Tojo, the
last real hopes for peace died. Almost at once, events began to slide
toward war
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