TheCodeBreakers
He had
reconsidered and wanted Marshall to add the usual admonition to show
the message to the naval opposites. Marshall added: "Inform naval
authorities of this communication." Stark offered the Navy
communication facilities, but Marshall said that the Army's could get the
message out as quickly.
Marshall gave the message to Bratton to take it to the War
Department message center for transmission to the commanding
generals in the Philippines, Hawaii, the Caribbean, and West Coast, after
vetoing a suggestion that it be typed first. As Bratton was leaving, Gerow
called out that if there was any question as to priority, to send it to the
Philippines first. Bratton, greatly agitated, gave the message to Colonel
Edward French in the message center and asked how long it would take
to get it out. French told him that it would be encoded in three minutes,
on the air in eight, and in the hands of the addressees in twenty. Bratton
returned and reported to Marshall, who did not understand the
annaabi.ee 
