Word: kurusu
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...Tokyo had cabled to Ambassador Nomura and Special Ambassador Kurusu: "There are reasons beyond your ability to guess why we wanted to settle Japanese-American relations by the 25th. . . . This time we mean it, that the deadline absolutely cannot be changed. After that things are automatically going to happen...
...Miss Kimiko." How far things had gone was illustrated by a telephone conversation on Nov. 27 between Kurusu and Kumaicho Yamamoto, head of the American section of the Jap Foreign Office. The two men used a voice code in which "Miss Umeko" referred to Secretary Hull and "Miss Kimiko" to President Roosevelt. The term "matrimonial question" meant the negotiations in Washington, and talk of childbirth meant that a crisis was at hand. All this was clear to the U.S. agents who had tapped the Japs' wires; the U.S., in peace as well as war, had all the Jap signal...
Although Suzuki had never been informed, he was convinced that neither Nomura nor Kurusu knew that the Japanese Navy would strike during the Washington negotiations...
...Saburo Kurusu, "peace" envoy to the U.S. when Pearl Harbor was attacked, is now "busily engaged in tilling his garden" in the mountain town of Karuizawa, said Radio Tokyo...
...easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving peace. As a result, charged Magnuson, the fleet was kept anchored at Pearl Harbor and even air patrols curtailed, to assure...