Word: nomura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...best in the techniques of Hitchcock and Welles to produce a picture which never falters. Even in the role of a government agent Humphrey Bogart loses none of his suave rapacity, and his characterization of an Army sleuth hoists the picture over many implausible bits of plot. With Nomura's grin still pacifying Washington, Bogart tracks Jap saboteurs in a wild chase from Canada to Panama. Ships, lonely docks, subway pursuits, and airplanes are all standard paraphenalia to this cast, which seems equally at home on land, on the sea, and in the air. Mary Astor, as the girl...
...Vichy and Tokyo. Davis & Lindley feel that the Administration was never hoodwinked by the Lavals or Tojos and in the main successfully finessed them. Secretary Hull is pictured as having worn himself down in health and strength by some 60 secret conferences, mostly at night, with Japanese Ambassador Nomura in the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. Hull's explanation of these parleys in his apartment: "The military fellows [U.S. and British] are after me to hold 'em [the Japs] off a little longer until we can get stronger out there...
...more notable for length than for accuracy. Most impressive of the checkable acts was the 1932 bombing of a reviewing stand in Shanghai after a parade in honor of Japan's Emperor: General Yoshinori Shirakawa lost his life, Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu his leg and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura his right eye. Author of that bombing was one In Hokichi. As for most other Korean terrorists, their aim was no better than Park Soowon...
...Pearl Harbor. At noon on Sunday, Dec. 7, Moore visited the Embassy for the 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...