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Conversations between the President and Japan's envoys, Saburo Kurusu and Admiral Nomura, had reached a stalemate when on Nov. 26 Secretary Hull gave the Japanese a memorandum for a general settlement of the Pacific's problems. The terms it offered were stiff, and high-minded, but to a nation which had not already planned a treacherous attack they might have been tempting...
Sept. 27, 1940. Japan's Ambassador in Berlin, Saburo Kurusu, signed a military alliance-directed against the U.S.-with Germany and Italy...
...Saburo Kurusu arrived in Washington as a special Japanese envoy, ostensibly to try to agree on a peaceable settlement with...
Suddenly, the Japanese Cabinet instructed Kurusu and Nomura to continue the talks. At least talking postponed war. It was a strained Saburo Kurusu who carried the news to Cordell Hull that his task was to keep talking. At week's end there was still no written reply from the Japanese to the 'written U.S. statement of principles...
...When Kurusu, leaving the State Department, was asked whether talks would go on, he said, ''They have never been broken off." When asked about Premier Tojo's speech, he said that the Premier had been misquoted...