DISCORDANT NOTES

Trib-ulations

I enjoyed Elliot Carlson’s piece on the Chicago Sunday Tribune article that could have alerted the Japanese that their naval code had been broken [“Midway Betrayal,” Winter 2018]. As to whether the Japanese read the newspaper, I note an article the Trib ran on December 8, 1941, also with a Washington dateline.

It stated that the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with four-motor bombers. The