Pearl Harbor

Analysis of Copy, Telegram transmitting Japanese Declaration of War on U. S. Crimes to which document applicable: Aggression; relations with U. S. Summary of relevant points: "Copy of Grew's transmission of Jap declaration of war."

Reports that "thirteen days before Pearl Harbor, Japan's Ambassador to the United States warned his country it would be blamed and accused of trickery if Japan started war during the course of the peace negotiations which were then in progress." The warning was sent by Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura.

Reports that former Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Chinese Communist General Choux En-laic "may be asked to appear before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East as defense witnesses for ex-Premier Hideki Tojo and the 26 other class A war criminal suspects." Other rumors circulating at the tribunal suggest that Republican Senators Owen Browser and Homer Ferguson might be subpoenaed in relation to their work on the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee.

Reports that the IPS believes that Takasumi Oka, former Japanese Naval chief, "worked with the Japanese liaison conference which approved the final draft of the last note sent to the United States" and should therefore be apprehended and confined in Sugamo prison.

Reports that Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, former ambassador to the United States, will release his version of the negotiations that took place between the United States and Japan prior to Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of war.