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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...
November 20-25. Franklin Roosevelt, alarmed by the Jap ultimatum, wavered, seriously considered a modus vivendi to last six months. In a penciled note to Cordell Hull he wrote: "U.S. to resume economic relations-some oil and rice now-more later. ... U.S. to introduce Japanese to Chinese to talk things over. . . . Later on Pacific agreements." To Winston Churchill he cabled that this would be "a fair proposition" for the Japs but that he was not hopeful of its acceptance; "we must all be prepared for real trouble, possibly soon...
Society Is Here. His first Journal-American, column stated the new Cholly's credo: "I have the warmest sentiments for the Spotlighted Creatures to whose exploits, witticisms and 'modus vivendi' this space will be devoted. ... I frankly and firmly believe in Society. .. . Not prompted by any desire to slander the grand Old Guard ... I want to bring it back where it belongs-to full honors and to the headlines. . . . Society is here to stay...
...while he still lived: to maintain Turkey's tottering economy he had to arrange some foreign loans. War modified it still further after Kamâl Atatürk's death: caught between campaigns to the west, north and south of her, Turkey had to find a modus vivendi with the warring powers which entailed some commitments. But the three men who formulate Turkey's policy have handled it brilliantly so far. None of their commitments has bound them definitely to one side or the other. Up to the present, their neutrality has been real...
...moviegoer is left with the unavoidable conclusion that the war is, in reality, over ten years old--that the conditions that existed after 1931 and prior to the actual outbreak of war are impossible in the peaceful modus vivendi. And a recognition of that, the Office of War Information feels, is insurance against a repetition of the selfsame conditions, and the Munichs and defeats that must follow...