Date of Award

7-1966

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Herbert W. Rice

Abstract

It was Sunday, December 7, 1941. At 2:20 P.M. - a few minutes after the State Department had received an unconfirmed report about the attack on Pearl Harbor - Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, accompanied by Saburo Kurusu, handed a lengthy memorandum to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Having been already apprised of its content that morning through the decoding service aptly called "Magic," Hull only glanced through the document "crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions..."

Comments

An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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