Decisive Moments of World War II: The Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, D-Day and the Manhattan Project by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-10-14T21:00:00+00:00

Obviously it is the intention of the American Government to conspire with Great Britain and other countries to obstruct Japan's effort toward the establishment of peace through the creation of a new order in East Asia, and especially to preserve Anglo-American rights and interest by keeping Japan and China at war. This intention has been revealed clearly during the course of the present negotiation.

Thus, the earnest hope of the Japanese Government to adjust Japanese-American relations and to preserve and promote the peace of the Pacific through cooperation with the American Government has finally been lost.

The Japanese Government regrets to have to notify hereby the American Government that in view of the attitude of the American Government it cannot but consider that it is impossible to reach an agreement through further negotiations.

Bainbridge Island intercepted the very last part of the message around midnight PST and sent if to Washington, where Army cryptologists decoded it and begain sharing the communication. The 14 part message was not a formal declaration of war, but it made clear that negotiations were finished, and as a result warnings were sent out to American bases to have their guard up overseas. Unforutnately, Admiral Harold Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, believed that previous warnings had been sufficient for Pearl Harbor to be at a proper alert level, so he didn’t bother waking up Admiral Husband Kimmel in Hawaii given that it was the dead of night. Meanwhile, early in the morning of December 7, Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall ordered the dispatch of a potential warning of war, “Japanese are presenting at one p.m. Eastern Standard Time today what amounts to an ultimatum also they are under orders to destroy their code machine immediately Stop Just what significance the hour set may have we do not know but be on alert accordingly Stop." However, Marshall would be out on his Sunday routine and was unavailable for contact until noon, and the Army was suffering technical problems that prevented his warning from reaching Hawaii.

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