Originally Posted by
Bill Greenwood
The embassy staff in Washington was supposed to deliver at letter to the U S,,I think at 7 am or so our time, but just made a slow job of translating the code and even typing the letter. I think the letter didn't say "We declare war", but rather that "no further negotiations are possible" and when Sec State Cordell Hull received it he said, "this means war".
This program claims, first time I'd ever heard this, that pilots were told not to bomb before a certain time, and that Adm Yamamoto had relied on the message being delivered and considered attacking before that as dishonorable. Iv never read that in any famous Japanese pilot books Ive read.
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