"From: Washington
(Nomura)
"To: Tokyo
"November 28, 1941
"Purple
"#1214 To be handled
in Government Code.
"Re my #1190.
"So
far silence has been maintained here concerning our talks with the United
Staten; however, now the results of our conference of the 26th are out and
headlines like this are appearing in the papers "Hull Hands Peace Plan to
Japanese," and "America Scorns a Second Munich." The papers say
that it is up to Japan either to accept the American proposal with its four
principals, or face war, in which latter case the responsibility would be upon
Japan.
"This we must carefully note."
(PROCEEDINGS OF THE HEWITT INQUIRY, P. 493)