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Married. Teruko Pia Kurusu, 21, daughter of Japan's special "peace" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a civilian employed by MacArthur's headquarters; in Yokohama, in a ceremony attended by neither her father nor her New York-born Caucasian mother...
Even more remarkable: Zacharias had pointed out to the Admiral that there were then two Jap envoys in Washington, Nomura and Kurusu. "When the third one arrives," he said, "you can look for it to break immediately." The third Japanese diplomat, Tatsuyi Sakamoto, Ambassador to Peru, arrived in Washington...
November 18. Kurusu and Nomura called on Hull, proposed as a temporary modus vivendi that the U.S. lift trade restrictions laid on Japan in July. By this time Secretary Hull was convinced that there was "not one chance in a hundred of reaching a peaceful settlement"; Welles thought the chances were one in a thousand...
...Kurusu: Oh sure, I know that. ... In any event, Miss Kimiko is leaving town tomorrow and will remain in the country until Wednesday...
...Kurusu: No, nothing of particular interest except that it is quite clear now that that southward-ah-the south, the south matter is having considerable effect. [This was a reference to Jap troops in French Indo-China...