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Without seeming to hear. Envoy Kurusu turned, walked away, got aboard the plane to Burbank...
...stand last week, as he stood, on the edge of a journey-the tickets bought, the destination clear, the plans made. The news from the Pacific said that the U.S. was ready for war in the East (see p. 36). The way the U.S. met the Japanese envoy, Saburo Kurusu, said that Washington was ready for war with Japan. President Roosevelt got his Neutrality Act repealed-but by a chillingly narrow margin (see p. 22). But unlike the President's trip to Warm Springs, this great journey into the unknown was nothing the country looked forward...
Mussolini placed his desk at the end of a huge room so that visitors would have time to grow uncomfortable as they approached it. Last week Saburo Kurusu. Japan's special envoy, crossed the U.S. like a man going across a more enormous room...
Nobody tried to make Saburo Kurusu uncomfortable as he made his way across the wide U.S. floor of deserts, mountains, factories, farms, politics, confusion, but at each step he could see reminders of the power...
This was not Kurusu's first trip to the U.S. He had seen it as a young man, when, in the consular service, he had met and married Alice Little of Chicago. He had seen the U.S. in the days when Japanese, in their first enthusiastic adherence to the Axis, made no secret of their indifference to U.S. opinion, of their reliance on power alone. But when the Clipper came down in San Francisco, after slipping in through the huge ring of defenses that guard the Golden Gate, Saburo Kurusu made his first U.S. statement, hopefully. Said...