Word: nomura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Cordell Hull had spent about eight hours in deadlock negotiations with Japanese Envoys Kurusu and Nomura, had held at least twelve conferences with the representatives of Britain, Australia, China, The Netherlands-the ABCD powers-when midway in last week's talks he gave the Japanese a written statement of the U.S. principles that must underlie a general settlement. They amounted to the general points on a free Pacific that he first set forth...
...Japan and the U.S. began their talks with the arrival of Ambassador Nomura last spring. In the middle of them, Japan invaded Indo-China. There is a deadly parallel with the current Kurusu talks and Japan's gestures toward Thailand...
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...
...four-year-old grandson was sitting on my knee when I started to peruse the Sept. 22 issue. We looked at the front cover-Japan's Nomura-and the little fellow remarked...