GODT: Yes.
COL. PHILLIMORE: You knew the importance of drafting an operational order with absolute clarity, did you not?
GODT: Yes.
COL. PHILLIMORE: These orders you were issuing were going to young commanders between 20 and 30 years of age, were they not?
GODT: Certainly not as young as 20. They would be in their late twenties, most probably.
COL. PHILLIMORE: Yes. Do you say that this order is not ambiguous?
GODT: Yes. Perhaps if you take one sentence out of the context you might have some doubt, but not if you read the entire order.
COL. PHILLIMORE: What was the point of the words: “Rescue runs counter to the most elementary demands of warfare for the destruction of enemy ships and crews”?
[There was no response.] Show it to him, will you?
[The document was submitted to the witness.]