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...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...
...Working with the British in the U.S. are Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson, and the division that handled the reciprocal trade agreements. Working with the British in London is U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
...Ambassador Castillo Nájera won all these moves. Now he lost a small one. U.S. citizens have claims against Mexico-aside from oil-totaling $40,000,000. In Secretary Hull's office, Mexico agreed to pay these in full by 1956, put up $3,000,000 on account (Mexico has already paid $3,000,000 on agrarian claims), will pay off the rest in $2,500,000 installments...
When Ambassador Castillo Nájero left Secretary Hull's office, he had an agreement on oil. Technically, it did not end the oil dispute. It was merely an agreement to agree in the future. By its terms each country will appoint one expert to determine how much the U.S. oil interests will be paid for the expropriated property. The experts will report before April 20, 1942, and there can be no appeal from their decision. If they do not agree, diplomatic negotiations begin, pledged to a settlement within five months, or the whole deal is off. The settlement...
...Americans have heard the innumerable statements, from informed sources in all branches of the government, that America is perilously close to war with Japan, but very few of us realize that these are not empty warnings, and that any day now might find them translated into realities. Though Secretary Hull's strong stand against Kurusu's recent proposals leaves the next move up to Japan, and though that move might very conceivably be war, comparatively little attention is paid to Japan by the American public, and if war does come it will undoubtedly taks us by surprise...