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Extracts taken from "The Desperate Diplomat: Saburo Kurusu's Memoir of the Weeks before Pearl Harbor"
Edited by: J. Garry Clifford, Masako R. Okura
University of Missouri Press, Nov 1, 2019
https://upress.missouri.edu/978082622...

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