BERLIN -- Japanese envoys to the Nazis are having a hard time of it. Ribbentrop won't, on his own, promise a declaration of war on the U.S. if Japan attacks first. Only Hitler can do that, and he's busy at his forward headquarters directing the attack on Moscow.
TOKYO -- The decision is reconfirmed. Despite the lack of a German promise to modify the Tripartite Pact, the assault on the American fleet is still on.
HONOLULU -- Radio intercept operators report a massive increase in Japanese naval communications traffic, leading Layton to report to Kimmel his speculation that the "entire Japanese Navy is being prepared for drastic action."
WASHINGTON -- The cables go out to U.S. naval attaches in Guam, Tokyo, Peiping, Shanghai, and Tientsin to destroy codes and secret material and to report compliance in the clear with the code word "Jabberwock." The fleet at Pearl Harbor is not told of all this.
In the north-central Pacific, the still radio-silent Kido Butai reaches Point C, near the dateline, and hauls right to a southeast course, putting Pearl Harbor dead ahead, 1,000 miles over the bow.
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