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...Cordell Hull, old and ill, raised a trem bling hand to be sworn in as a witness...
November 18. Kurusu and Nomura called on Hull, proposed as a temporary modus vivendi that the U.S. lift trade restrictions laid on Japan in July. By this time Secretary Hull was convinced that there was "not one chance in a hundred of reaching a peaceful settlement"; Welles thought the chances were one in a thousand...
...Miss Kimiko." How far things had gone was illustrated by a telephone conversation on Nov. 27 between Kurusu and Kumaicho Yamamoto, head of the American section of the Jap Foreign Office. The two men used a voice code in which "Miss Umeko" referred to Secretary Hull and "Miss Kimiko" to President Roosevelt. The term "matrimonial question" meant the negotiations in Washington, and talk of childbirth meant that a crisis was at hand. All this was clear to the U.S. agents who had tapped the Japs' wires; the U.S., in peace as well as war, had all the Jap signal...
...code) that all negotiations were at an end: "Well, you two Ambassadors have exerted superhuman efforts . . . but the negotiations will be de facto ruptured. This is inevitable. However, I do not wish you to give the impression that the negotiations are broken off. Merely say to them [i.e., Roosevelt & Hull] that you are awaiting instructions. . . . Say that we have always demonstrated a long-suffering and conciliatory attitude...
...seven months, the U.S. was pledged to knock the chocks from under the Philip pine ship of state and send it sliding into the treacherous sea of independence. War had holed the uncompleted hull. Hurriedly the Administration in Washington planned a patching job. Last week, while the tools and blueprints were still being got together, it sent Indiana's slightly dented political knight-errant, Paul V. McNutt, off to Manila as High Com missioner, to straw-boss the work...