Japanese Diplomatic Envoy Saburo Kurusu Negotiated in Bad Faith 1941 | William Harlan Hale on the Pearl Harbor Attack 1941
1941, Pearl Harbor, PM Tabloid

Japanese Fleet Crossed the Sea While Kurusu Talked
(PM Tabloid, 1941)

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“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.”