"Two weeks ago, on November 23, Saburo Kurusu was declaring in Washington that he was,"hopeful' of peace..." Don't believe that the Japanese ordered their dawn assault only yesterday. The fact is that they ordered it not days ago but weeks ago. While Japan's special envoy, Saburo Kurusu, was busy talking in Washington, the ships that were to attack us were already on their way. While he was staling and waiting 'for instructions', they were getting into position. More than that: they had their orders before Kurusu even started talking."
(In his 1952 memoir, Kurusu insisted that he knew nothing of the Pearl Harbor plan and was negotiating in good faith.)
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