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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...
...French Indo-China, to make many minor concessions-the U.S. continued to quote Mein Kampf. Aside from the moral issues involved, the U.S. cannot let Japan-and Hitler-get control of China's huge man power. Four points were given as summing up Secretary Hull's counter-demands on the Japanese: 1) that Japan withdraw from the Axis; 2) get out of China and French Indo-China; 3) renounce aggression; 4) observe the principle of equal trade opportunity in the Pacific...
...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 the Dutch East Indies...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Britain's Ambassador to Washington, Viscount Halifax, signed the agreement on Oct. 17. Marked "confidential" by the State Department, it was sent to the Senate on Oct. 3 1, with an urgent letter from President Roosevelt. But Congress was busy wrestling with the Neutrality...
Finland last week made official her refusal to heed U.S. demands that she stop fighting Russia (TIME, Nov. 10). President Risto Ryti's Government was exceedingly polite, as befitted a nation writing to an old friend, but as the note was delivered to Secretary of State Cordell Hull the Finnish staff was planning new attacks on a new U.S. friend, Russia...