...United States document, Mr. Hull told the Japanese Ambassador: "I must say that in all my cccversations with you (the Japanese Ambassador) during the last...more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions — en a scale so huge that I never imagined until today that any government on this planet was capable...

...efforts to establish peace in Asia. Secretary Hull told the Japanese representatives, "In all my fifty years of public service I have never seen a document...crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions." But the real Japanese answer had been delivered more than an hour earlier at Hickam Field and Pearl...

...prosperity of the two nations. (Part 10). Mr. Hull described the whole document on December 7 : tt In all my 50 years of public service I have never...that I never imagined until today that any government of this planet was capable of uttering them. The 13 parts and the pilot message instructing the Japanese...

...been received. In a speech filled with passion the Secretary denounced the note as "a document . . . crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions —...distortions on a scale so huge that I never imagined any government on this planet was capable of uttering them." Stunned at the Secretary's indignation,...

...which he already had on his desk. "In all my fifty years of public service," he said with feeling, "I have never seen a document that was more crowded...never imagined until today that any Government on this "Pearl Harbor Report, pp. 219-28. planet was capable of uttering them."27 The Japanese left without...

...condemnatory, and ended with breaking off the negotiations. Secretary Hull said to the Japanese diplomats: "I have never seen a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions—infamous falsehoods and distortions on a scale so huge that I never imagined until today...

...Japanese formula for a Pacific settlement. When he had finished reading it, he said: "In all my fifty years of public service I have never seen a document...distortions on a scale so huge that I never imagined that any government on this planet was capable of uttering them." At that moment, early in the morning...

...He dismissed Nomura and Kutusu by characretizing the nore's atrempt to justify Japan's position as "infamous falsehoods and distortions on a scale so...that any Government on this planet was capable of utreting them." The timing of the delivery was larer used to portray the Japanese as a treachetous...

...any attack, could only stand silently by and absorb Hull's self-righteous tirade: "In all my fifty years of public service I have never seen a document...Government on this planet was capable of uttering them."327 Competition for influence and recognition among the three embassy secretaries had been worrisome...

...made a diplomatic disclaimer. He said he told the Japanese that in 50 years of public service he had "never seen a document that was more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions. " He had heard that he cussed out the envoys, he wrote. "But the fact is that I told them exactly what...