Kurusu Saburo

(Germany), Galeazzo Ciano (Italy), and Kurusu Saburo (Japan). Several other European countries—some of which had been coerced—were later signatories.

The veteran diplomat Kurusu Saburo then flew to Washington with two final options, Plan A and Plan B. The latter held out some hope, since in it Japan at least promised to make no military moves to the south. But MAGIC deciphered a cable revealing the secret deadline…