Word: saburo
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...easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving peace. As a result, charged Magnuson, the fleet was kept anchored at Pearl Harbor and even air patrols curtailed, to assure...
...Pardon, sir, but we think you are in the same position that the Spanish Governor was in 1898." At Wake Island, the signature just before Sheean's in the station master's wife's autograph book took a whole page in English and Japanese. It was Saburo Kurusu's. Six days before Pearl Harbor, Sheean got home...
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...
Sept. 27, 1940. Japan's Ambassador in Berlin, Saburo Kurusu, signed a military alliance-directed against the U.S.-with Germany and Italy...
...Saburo Kurusu arrived in Washington as a special Japanese envoy, ostensibly to try to agree on a peaceable settlement with...