Word: fumimaro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main failing lay in the buoyant optimism that had served a discouraged U.S. so well in the depressed 1930s. Always he had "confidence in his ability to persuade people face to face." In 1941, he would have liked to arrange a Pacific rendezvous with Japan's Premier Fumimaro Konoye, failing to comprehend (as Burns puts it) "that there were few misunderstandings between the two countries, only differences." Later, with the U.S. formally at war in Europe as well as Asia, he failed to perceive that the same observation would have applied just as well...