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...Berlin. The long-distance operator will say: "You will get it right away." Or you can go downtown to the stone-fronted office of Italian Cables to send a message to Germany, Italy or Japan. Argentina has restricted the embassies of all warring nations to 100 code words per day, but there are no restrictions on plain-language communications with any country in the world, Axis or otherwise...
...essence of the Japanese officer's code is attack. The essence of the Japanese fighting man's strength is stealth. What will transpire in the South Pacific is by no means certain, because the U.S. has just begun to fight there, and the U.S. may seize the initiative. But Osami Nagano, too, has just begun to fight. The only certain prognostication about the South Pacific is that Admiral Nagano will attack with all the craft of which he is capable. If he is once defeated, he will attack again, craftily again...
Newspapers had been playing blindman's buff with the Roosevelt-Churchill Casablanca conference story ever since Jan. 9, when all editors were advised by Censor Byron Price: "The President is taking another trip. . . . Attention is directed forcefully to the Code provision restricting any information regarding [his] movements. . . ." By Jan. 25, when the printable news reached their desks, with another 32 hours before it could be officially released (at 10 p.m. E.W.T., the 26th), they had fidgets. Meanwhile they hinted to the hilt...
...girl's voice: "If you use Morse Code you get "MIGEE" and that's Fibber McGee, and that mean's he's lying and is in trouble." She was absolutely convinced, too. A Radcliffe girl said the WAVES had helped. No beer. Then a mother phoned, said her daughter "Sixteen years old and looks like Veronica Lake"--had got "Am in a mess" by crossing out words, the most common method among unfortunates...
...clock last night the students, faculties, and service men of the University had not yet solved the code message contained in Sunday's Terry and the Pirates. Look: Milt Caniff can do it, the General can do it, and I bet you two to one Flash Gordon could do it with one had tied behind his rocket ship. Well...