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Hell & High Water. Across the world, over the uncertain radio channels between Tokyo and Europe, the same message in diplomatic code creaked along via the neutral governments of Sweden (for relay to Russia and Britain) and Switzerland (for relay to the U.S. and China). While the world throbbed with the known news, the President went on with his day's work...
Minister Leland Harrison in Bern, and then in proper code (11 hours late...
...maintain vital transportation services. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the "general mobilization for production" would continue. In a joint statement the military and civilian authorities emphasized the old order that all Japanese "guilty of disquieting speech and behavior, also those spreading rumors" would be "strictly punished according to the military code...
...plane briskly, setting foot on English soil for the first time in his life-and for the first visit of a U.S. President to Britain since Woodrow Wilson's triumphal tour in 1919. There were few Britons on hand to cheer Harry Truman. "Operation Exodus" (the military-code designation for the visit) had unavoidably run into a snafu. Ground haze prevented the scheduled landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed for America...
...intricate indexing system. "Having found one item . . . one has to emerge from the system and re-enter on a new path. The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association." The machine would mechanize this process by permanently tying together two or more items with code numbers. Thereafter, the same train of thought could be projected on a screen at will by tapping off the right code (recorded in a code book...