The Desperate Diplomat : Saburo Kurusu's Memoir of the Weeks Before Pearl Harbor.
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Author / Creator: | Clifford, J. Garry (John Garry), 1942-2014. |
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Imprint: | Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2016. |
Description: | 1 online resource (198 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11955957 |
Table of Contents:
- The inside story of the Japanese-American negotiation: Our diplomatic history / Saburo Kurusu
- Kurusu's preface
- From Part I: Sketching on the sand
- Part II: The Japanese-American negotiation
- The interrupted, misread, misinterpreted messages
- The midnight messenger
- My meeting with Premier Tōjō
- Passing through the places of my two years of service
- My forty-eight hours at midway
- Washington at the time of my arrival
- My first meeting with the president
- My first negotiation with hull
- The deteriorating one week
- My conference with Hull at his home
- Hull's fatal note
- Negotiation falls into a tight spot
- Our second meeting with the president
- Premier Tōjō's speech to expel America and Great Britain
- Plan for the exchange of messages between heads of state
- The "If" lurking behind history
- The kindness of Baruch
- The final ultimatum
- Life during internment
- Several speculations
- Contemplation and observation
- Exchange ship
- Arrival home.