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While Mr. Hull and the President waited for Japan's reply, ominous reports of Japanese troop movements in French Indo-China began to pour in on Washington. At week's end President Roosevelt dispatched a personal message to Emperor Hirohito...
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...
...Maybe it was that you had to be utilitarian. In war you have to consider what would bring the greatest good to the greatest number of your people. "You damn fool," he said, and he gave the stick a push. "You silly ass," and the hull far below came into view just over the cowling...
...similar view was voiced by Eugene D. Keith '42, president of the Student Council, who declared: "As Mr. Hull said, there seemed to be no common basis for settlement. Since each side refused to capitulate, war was made inevitable. Our involvement with Japan means eventually war with the European dictators as well, and the sooner all Americans unite in vigorous support of the war, the sooner it will be over...
There were still other unanswered questions: Was U.S. riveted armor as good as the riveted armor of the Germans? Whether it was or not, better was on the way. Last week American Locomotive Co. ran off its first medium with a cast-steel upper hull. All its surfaces are curved (to make shots glance off). It is also lighter, faster to build...