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For a fortnight after my dinner with Hankins there was no firm news from America. One rumour was, that the decision about using the bomb had been postponed. Among the people that I met, no one knew the truth, not ministers nor Hector Rose nor any of the scientists.
Late in July – from a record I could later place it as the morning of July 27th – Francis Getliffe entered my office.