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and temper, I don't think I ever saw him before when he was obviously under such strain to keep the control of that temper. He was obviously very deeply disturbed by the human emotional crisis through which he had been. He felt that the attempt of the two enjoys - there were three, but he mentioned two particularly - to continue the negotiations and to continue conversations looking towards and agreement of some sort between the Japanese and the United States, up until the last minute, was the very height of insult and depravity and deceit. It was intolerable. Their mere doing it made it intolerable to him.

He also rejected with considerable anger, and obvious conviction, the idea, which the Japanese kept repeating, that they did not know, that they were in ignorance of this plan. He did not believe it. He immediately didn't believe it. I understand that he has since continued to say that he did not believe that they were ignorant of it, and believed that they were deliberately fooling him, or attempting to fool him. He claims that he was never fully fooled, but that he hadn't expected it to take place at that moment. He had never believed, he says, that they meant business, that they meant to reach an agreement, but he hadn't expected that they would continue to negotiate, or attempt to negotiate, until the last minute.

He described that day how patient he had been and now utterly stubborn they had been, how there had never been any





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