The World - News from March 10, 1989

A book whose publication was canceled says Britain had cracked enough Japanese codes to know an attack on Pearl Harbor was imminent but did not tell the Americans, according to printed excerpts. “Codebreaker Extraordinary” speculates that Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to bring the United States into World War II so badly he concealed British knowledge of Japanese movements before the attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Excerpts were published in the Independent newspaper. The newspaper said publication of the book was canceled after the government body overseeing media treatment of national security issued a warning against disclosing intelligence about codes.