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...Tokyo had cabled to Ambassador Nomura and Special Ambassador Kurusu: "There are reasons beyond your ability to guess why we wanted to settle Japanese-American relations by the 25th. . . . This time we mean it, that the deadline absolutely cannot be changed. After that things are automatically going to happen...
...emphatic on the subject of the Emperor. Until just before he took office as Premier, the Emperor was uninformed about the disastrous trend of the war. Suzuki said firmly that the Emperor had been against the war, had repeatedly requested that some peaceful way out be found, that Admiral Nomura's task in Washington was to carry out the Emperor's wishes...
Although Suzuki had never been informed, he was convinced that neither Nomura nor Kurusu knew that the Japanese Navy would strike during the Washington negotiations...
...discernible, immediate effect on Japan last week was concerned, the Potsdam offer of surrender terms (TIME, Aug. 6) was a flop. The Suzuki Cabinet had specifically rejected the terms. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, the dry old man who was talking peace in Washington on Pearl Harbor day, called the terms "the height of impertinence." The controlled Japanese press and radio played them up as though they were good for home morale. An "extremely indignant" civilian letter-writer to a Japanese newspaper denounced the Potsdam declaration for "scheming to alienate the military and civilians." Said he: "The war's responsibility rests...
...confused with one-eyed Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, who smilingly conferred with Secretary Hull while Pearl Harbor was attacked...