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...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...
...crowded hall occupying one among 20 vacant chairs on the floor. . . ." And, finally, Moore was with the Japanese Embassy in Washington through the last desperate months before Pearl Harbor. In the summer of 1941 he had believed he could do nothing to restore Japanese-American relations, and told Ambassador Nomura so. But Nomura insisted that he stay. "We are in the last ditch," he admitted, "but we must continue the struggle anyway...
Japan's last Ambassador to Washington, Nomura, wavered between hope and despair throughout the last months before Pearl Harbor. "It will be a crime for these two countries to fight each other," he told Moore, adding sadly, "but the crime will be committed." And when war seemed inevitable Nomura shuffled his arguments and began to talk of Japan's strength, hoping thereby to frighten U.S. officials. "Americans," he said, "were underestimating the difficulties which he, as a naval man, knew we should have in waging war across the Pacific." He spoke of the distances, the strategic position...
...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...