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When cheerful Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura says this the sparkle goes out of his one good eye. To him it is a sentence full of unhappy foreign policy. It means that Japan is desperately hard up for oil and gasoline; that therefore Japan must for the time being say uncle to Uncle Sam -or else fight...
...Admiral Nomura would be most reluctant to have Japan fight for oil. He personally likes peace...
...year ago good relations you and us. Most of time we're happy hours. Now Japanese and United States policy, they are many divergencies. But human being must be able to make some formulas." Last week, as he had been ever since his appointment as Ambassador, Admiral Nomura was a man in search of a formula. There was not much chance that he would find anything but a temporary equation...
...years of mutual shoving, glowering, apologizing and more shoving had put the U.S. and Japan dangerously close to war. It did not look last week as if Admiral Nomura or anyone else could make either side withdraw cleanly and permanently from the brink. The best formula the Admiral could hope to achieve would be a minor deal which would freeze both sides' positions for as long as possible...
...Prince Konoye's personal note to President Roosevelt. From Washington, however, came a report giving one version of the Japanese aims in current negotiations. Premier Konoye, it said, had assured President Roosevelt of his desire for peace, requested economic discussions, told the President that peaceful Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura was really empowered to speak for his nation. Ambassador Nomura was empowered, according to this report, to demand: i) U.S.-British recognition of Manchukuo; 2) U.S.-British recognition of Japan's special position in North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek...