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Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's one-eyed Ambassador, busily pumped hands in Sumner Welles's waiting room, pumped a hand that swam into his vision from the blind side. It was the Negro attendant reaching for his hat. Next day China's Dr. Hu Shih, two-eyed but confused, made the same mistake, pumped the same hand in the same room...
...only an unconfirmed report. But it may well have been true, even if the U.S. had no part in it. From Washington the New York Times's Hallett Abend (who left Shanghai last October, after 14 years of service in the Far East) reported that Japanese Ambassador Nomura for nearly two months had been secretly trying to negotiate a U.S.Japanese neutrality and non-aggression pact with Secretary of State Hull...
...Admiral Nomura thought Cordell Hull would sell China or the East Indies down the river, in exchange for a promise from Japan, he did not know his man. Japan, as Mr. Abend expected, promptly denied that any such proposal had been made. Mr. Hull merely said stiffly that U.S. policy in the Far East remained exactly what it was in April 1940, when he told Japan that any change of status in The Netherlands East Indies would be "prejudicial to the cause of stability, peace and security...
...Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli both called on Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka conferred with his chiefs of Military and Naval Affairs, while Emperor Hirohito received War Minister Eiki Tojo. A Government spokesman denied, as he must, a report that Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was seeking a neutrality pact in Washington...
Promptly a Japanese spokesman made another peaceful statement. In the elaborate Japanese Embassy, Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura leaned back in his chair before more than 50 reporters and talked affably for 45 minutes about Japan's policy, about her indifference to U. S. improvement of the harbor of Guam, about the absence of Japanese desire to seize any territory. But even Admiral Nomura would not deny that Japan might fight to gain her ends. And the new Ambassador confessed that he found the U. S. atmosphere not so favorable as he had hoped when he left Tokyo...