TheCodeBreakers
I
to settle the matter with the new administration once and for all. He
decided on the bold stroke of drawing up "a memorandum to be
presented directly to the President, outlining the history and activities of
the Black Chamber, and the necessary steps that must be taken if the
Government had hoped to take full advantage of the skill of its
cryptographers." He waited to see which way the wind was blowing before
making his move—and found that it was not with him. Yardley went to a
speakeasy to listen to Hoover's first speech as President and sensed, in
the high ethical strictures that Hoover expressed, the doom of the Black
Chamber.
He was right, though its actual closing came from elsewhere. After
Henry L. Stimson, Hoover's Secretary of State, had been in office the few
months that Yardley thought would be necessary for him to have lost
some of his innocence in wrestling with the hardheaded realities of
diplomacy, the Black Chamber sent him the solution of an important
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