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...years Frederick Moore served the Japanese government as adviser on international affairs. Seven ambassadors to Washington-Shidehara, Hanihara, Mat-sudaira, Debuchi, Saito, Horinouchi, Nomura-worked with his assistance. He was a member of the Japanese delegation which went to the League of Nations to argue Japan's case for the invasion of Manchuria. When Matsuoka, the delegation's head; insolently marched out of the League Assembly, he was followed by all his fellow delegates save Frederick Moore...
Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura dispatched a courier posthaste from the embassy in Washington before his departure set reporters asleuthing. With a guard of two FBI agents the courier hustled into a closed car and whisked away. His mission: the purchase of one pair of underdrawers...
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...
...precise moment that Mr. Hull received them, the news was being received at the White House that Japan had attacked Hawaii. Courtly Mr. Hull took the document which Admiral Nomura gave him, adjusted his spectacles, began to read...
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...