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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...
...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...
...weeks Chungking has been worried by the Hull-Nomura conversations. Last month Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned U.S. Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss to his mountain cottage behind the Yangtze bluffs, asked for information. Ambassador Gauss, having none, could say nothing. Later, when President Roosevelt told the world that the U.S. Navy would sink any Nazi raider molesting shipping in the western Atlantic, Chinese radio operators strained at their earphones to hear one word about China or the Pacific. They heard none. Chungking censors sup pressed Washington dispatches reporting that the U.S. was considering Japanese claims to north and central China...
There were other signs that Japan was licking her chops over Russia. In Washington the "exploratory conversations" between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura slowed down, principally over Japan's unwillingness to commit herself against further adventures. Fresh from a tour of southern French Indo-China, Correspondent Leland Stowe reported that Japan held that country with too small forces for offensive operations to the south...