TheCodeBreakers
I made a pretense of glancing through the note. I knew its contents
already but naturally could give no indication of this fact.
After reading two or three pages, I asked Nomura whether he had
presented the document under instructions from his Government.
He replied that he had.
When I finished skimming the pages, I turned to Nomura and put my
eye on him.
"I must say," I said, "that in all my conversations with you during the
last nine months I have never uttered one worth of untruth. This is borne
out absolutely by the record. In all my fifty years of public service I have
never seen a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods
and distortions— infamous falsehoods and distortions on a scale so huge
that I never imagined until today that any Government on this planet
was capable of uttering them."
Nomura seemed about to say something. His face was impassive, but I
felt he was under great emotional strain. I stopped him with a motion of
my hand
annaabi.ee 
