Efforts to reach a peaceful settlement between the United States and Japan preceding attack by Japan on American territory, December 7: 1

1. See also Foreign Relations, Japan, 1931–1941, vol ii, pp. 131149, 325795; Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack: Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 79th Cong., 2d sess., pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27, a concurrent resolution to investigate the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and events and circumstances relating thereto, and additional views of Mr. Keefe, together with Minority views of Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Brewster (1946); Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 79th Cong., 1st sess., in 183 exhibits printed in 39 parts (1946), and especially part 12 containing intercepted Japanese code messages (“magic”); and Department of the Army, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941–1942 (Washington, 1953), pp. 1–126.