Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kurusu: But without anything-they want me to keep carrying on the matrimonial question? In the meantime we're faced with having a child born. On top of that, Tokugawa [code for the Jap Army] is champing at the bit, isn't he? . . . That's why I doubt if anything can be done...
Yamamoto: Well, we can't sell a mountain [code for: we can't yield...
...Miss Kimiko." How far things had gone was illustrated by a telephone conversation on Nov. 27 between Kurusu and Kumaicho Yamamoto, head of the American section of the Jap Foreign Office. The two men used a voice code in which "Miss Umeko" referred to Secretary Hull and "Miss Kimiko" to President Roosevelt. The term "matrimonial question" meant the negotiations in Washington, and talk of childbirth meant that a crisis was at hand. All this was clear to the U.S. agents who had tapped the Japs' wires; the U.S., in peace as well as war, had all the Jap signal...
unlike Germans, they did not preach a new moral code which justified atrocities...
...visible accomplishments were a book of poems, a code long used by the State Department, a mystery story, and a diary-supposed to contain one of the most detailed histories of Woodrow Wilson's controversial administration-which he burned "because it was too risky to leave lying around." But his greatest accomplishments were invisible and unrecorded: in the years before his final retirement in 1936, Mr. Mac befriended and spurred many a young Princetonian...