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Were quaint transparencies dating back to the time when hampton fish was secretary of state under president grant, and they were intended to save words and cut telegraph costs, not to fool anybody. the new code book had been put together so hastily that the word america was left out and code groups so closely paralleled true readings that love, l-o-v-e-e, for example, of the symbol for love. whatever slight illusion of secrecy we code clerks may have had was disspelled one day by a gentleman who announced that the germans had all our codes. it was said that the germans now and then got message...
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