Word: kurusu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...think you are in the same position that the Spanish Governor was in 1898." At Wake Island, the signature just before Sheean's in the station master's wife's autograph book took a whole page in English and Japanese. It was Saburo Kurusu's. Six days before Pearl Harbor, Sheean got home...
...documented pages of its white paper, Peace and War, the State Department for the first time set forth the history of its dealings with the Imperial Government of Japan from the 1931 invasion of Manchuria down to the final hours that Cordell Hull spent with Ambassador Nomura and Emissary Kurusu while their countrymen made finally ready for Pearl Harbor...
When the Japs sneak-smashed at Pearl Harbor I didn't say, "Kurusu made a sucker out of Hull and the Old Man! Like as usual, Washington was asleep...
...last time. At Pearl Harbor it was 6:30 a.m.-"the Japanese airplanes had taken off and the submarines were approaching." In the embassy, Nomura, apparently ignorant of these events, could only shake his head and say: "It's in God's hands." Near by, Special Ambassador Kurusu was at work on Tokyo's long final note, which Secretary Hull an hour or two later would describe as false and infamous. While they waited to see the Secretary of State, Nomura glanced nervously at his watch (see cut p. 77). But if Mr. Moore is right...
Looks like Kurusu tried a quarterback sneak for his "touchdown...