Excerpt from Pearl Harbor Attack, Vol. 20: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-Ninth Congress, Second Session Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27; Joint Committee Exhibits Nos. 173 Through 179 By April 1941, the time had become ripe for the Governments of the two coun tries to conduct the conversations themselves. It should be remembered that because of the personal connections of the participants in the conversations from the first, private contact was maintained between President Roosevelt himself and Mr. Hull on the American side, -and between Ambassador nomura and the Japanese Military and Naval Attaches in Washington on the Japanese side. Thus, both the President and the Japanese Ambassador were kept informed of what was going on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.