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Suddenly, the Japanese Cabinet instructed Kurusu and Nomura to continue the talks. At least talking postponed war. It was a strained Saburo Kurusu who carried the news to Cordell Hull that his task was to keep talking. At week's end there was still no written reply from the Japanese to the 'written U.S. statement of principles...
That was what Saburo Kurusu was hearing in Washington last week. The Japanese envoy saw Secretary Hull and then remained in seclusion, less like a diplomat awaiting new orders than like a casualty in the war of nerves. The U.S. suggestion was enough to give any diplomat an attack of nerves: long before Hitler is prepared to take on North America, he must have Japan completely subservient to his will...
...Saburo Kurusu made only one statement : he asked for silence. Japanese newspapers headlined doubts of the success of his mission. There were no signs that Japan could still think of a peaceful Pacific.* Tension was increased when the U.S. Consulate at Saigon, in Japan-dominated Indo-China, was bombed. As U.S.Japanese talks made no progress, Secretary Hull held two conferences with the representatives of Australia, Britain, China, The Netherlands. The U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana (see p. 13) was a powerful demonstration of U.S.-Dutch collaboration, a warning that there would be more collaboration if Japan should move against...
...last Saburo Kurusu called on Secretary Hull again, this time at night at his hotel, and stayed for three hours. There was still no statement. Around the brownstone Japanese Embassy, biggest and loneliest in Washington, the atmosphere was like a hospital street where the signs read Quiet, Please...
Indispensable Oldster. When Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu paused at Manila on his way to Washington last week, he paid his respects to Tommy Hart. Murmured he: "It is my business to keep the Admiral idle." The Admiral, weathered, wrinkled, tough as a winter apple, smiled broadly. As full of energy as a boy, he is far happier when he is bouncing around on inspection tours aboard his tooth-shaking, 245-foot yacht The Isabel than when he sits in his shore office in Manila's Mars-man Building, overlooking the Bay where most of his fleet anchors. According...