Evening star., 1945-11-15
PeorI Hurbor'
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wood movie set as the historic in
quiry got under way.
Two men, who have perhaps q
greater interest in the outcome of
the inquiry than any other indi-
viduals, were on hand to hear the
testimony from the start. They are
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and
Maj. Gen. Walter c. Short, the
commanders in Hawaii on the day
<of the attack, who will be given
their first opportunity to tell their
side Of the story publicly.
Some of the code messages intro
duced today are expected to figure
prominently in the testimony later
on, as Republican committee men,
bers seek to show that Washington
should have given its military COM
manders at Pearl Harbor more of
the information it was intercepting
and a clearer picture of the immi-
nence of war.
Near the end of the book Of in
tercepted diplomatic messages ap-
peared this communication from
Tokyo to Washington, dated Decem-
ber 7, 194l, and labeled secret" +"
After the date was the warning,
CUrgent-very importantly No. 907
to be handled in Government code.
re My No. 902.
Believed short Message.
will the Ambassador please sub
init to the United States Govern
ment df possible to the Secretary of
State) our reply to the United States
at pm. on the 7th, your time"
This is believed to be the so-called
short" message, which reached
Washington right after the jap
anese had transmitted their long,
14-part reply to the American note
Some Republican committee men,
bers have contended the timing in
this short message indicated an at
tack on Pearl Harbor was contem-
plated, because l pm. in Washing
ton-when the final note was to be
handed Secretary of State Hull
would be dawn over the Hawaiian
Islands.
This message was followed by two
unimportant ones, expressing To-
kyo's regret to it's emissaries here
that negotiations had failed. One
was from Bureau Chief Yamamotc
to Commercial Attache Iguchi and
his staff as well as to Secretary
Yuki." It read:
II, together with the members OF
the bureau. deeply appreciate and
heartily thank you for your great
effort which you have been making
for many months in behalf of our
country despite all difficulties in
coping with the unprecedented >cri-
sis. We pray that you will continue
to be in good health"
Then came this message from
Tokyo to Washington dated Decem-
ber 7, and numbered 80. It was
marked extremely urgent" and
read:
After deciphering part IA of my
No. 902 and also 907, 908 and 600
please destroy at once the remaining
cipher machine and all machine
codes. Dispose in like manner also
secret documents"
Baked at War With Russia.
In another code message sent fron
Tokyo to its emisSaries in Berlin or
December 6, 1941, the Japs revealed
their desire to avoid war with Rus.
sia until strategic circumstance.
permit It," The same message de
clared that sin case we start our wa,
with the United States we will cap.
ture all American ships destined To-
Soviet Russia. This message con.
i tinued as follows:
i However, should Foreign Min
lister Ribbentrop insist upon our civ.
ing a guarantee In this matter, sine,
In that case we shall have no othe,
recourse, make q statement to th,
eject that we would, as q matter o
principle, prevent war material
from being shipped from the United
States TO Soviet Russia via the jap.
aneSe waters and get them to agre,
to q procedure permitting the add,
tfon OF q statement to the effect tha
SO long as strategic reasons continu,
to make it necessary for us to keel
/ Soviet Russia from fighting JapaI
what ] mean is that we cannot cap.
4 ture Soviet ships). we cannot carr,
this out thoroughly.
In case the German goverrlmen
refuses to agree and make