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Toward Coolness. As he set sail last January aboard the Kamakura Maru to take up his appointment in the U.S., Admiral Nomura was tall with hope. At first things went swimmingly. At Honolulu U.S. naval officers, among them Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet Admiral James O. Richardson, greeted him as pretty girls laid leis about his neck. Off California two destroyers met his ship. As he sailed through the Golden Gate a battery at Fort Winfield Scott fired a 19-gun salute. In San Francisco reporters interviewed him and Nisei (U.S.-born Japanese) feted...
...presence of Counselor of the German Embassy Dr. Hans Thomsen at Union Station did not help. That very day (it was the 2,601st anniversary of the Japanese Empire) President Roosevelt, in a press conference, said that war with Japan would not affect deliveries to Great Britain. Admiral Nomura's first call on Secretary of State Cordell Hull lasted only four minutes; it was an all-time quickie. President Roosevelt was a little more cordial. The Admiral told reporters that the U.S. atmosphere was worse than he had expected...
...months later Sumner Welles publicly warned Japan that the U.S. is interested in deeds, not vaguely peaceful words. Admiral Nomura promptly called in 50 reporters and told them that the U.S. atmosphere was worse than when he arrived...
Toward Politeness. Japan's bluff was called. Japan's Army and Navy, like all others today, are huge internal combustion machines, which without oil must inevitably burn out bearings and rattle to a stop. So on Aug. 28 Kichisaburo Nomura carried to Franklin Roosevelt a note from Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. It contained, by inference, Japan's declaration of willingness to back down. Its proposition was that the U.S. and Japan ought not to let bad feelings deteriorate into worse, and worse into...
...State Department thought it could get Japan to back down to some extent. In any case valuable time -time that was pro-Russian and anti-Hitler-would be gained by negotiations, which would certainly be delicate, undoubtedly be long. Accordingly, talks were begun both in Washington, where Admiral Nomura and Cordell Hull met several times "outside the State Department," and in Tokyo, where Foreign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toyoda received the American who has the most savvy about and the most sympathy with Japan, Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew...