 | Roberta Wohlstetter - History - 1962 - 454 pages
...or whether, as he suggested yesterday he would, he broke the whole matter off. He told me now that he had broken the whole matter off. As he put it,...now in the hands of you and Knox — the Army and the Navy." I then called up the President. The President gave me a little different view. He said they... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - Censorship - 1962 - 624 pages
...Secretary of War Stimson about the negotiations with the Japanese a short time before Pearl Harbor: "I have washed my hands of it, and it is now in the hands of you and Knox—the Army and the Navy." 67 Nor must it be forgotten that some military people also yearned for... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services - Censorship - 1962 - 998 pages
...Secretary of War Stlmson about the negotiations with the Japanese a short time before Pearl Harbor: "I have washed my hands of it, and it is now in the hands of you ami Knox — the Army and the Navy."'7 Nor must it be forgotten thnt some military people also yearned... | |
 | Ariel Levite - History - 1987 - 252 pages
...Japan, saying something to the effect that "he had broken the whole matter off' and adding specifically, "I have washed my hands of it and it is now in the hands of you and Knox — the Army and the Navy" (ibid.:258). Even Stanley Hornbeck, Hull's chief adviser on Far Eastern affairs, who was... | |
 | Michael A. Barnhart - Business & Economics - 1987 - 300 pages
...an ultimatum and an insult. Hull was under no delusions himself. On 27 November he informed Stimson, "I have washed my hands of it, and it is now in the hands of you and Knox — the army and the navy." Exactly four months earlier his counterpart in Japan might have uttered the same words.59... | |
 | James William Morley - Political Science - 1995 - 492 pages
...and navy should take, Hull made it clear that "I have washed my hands of it [the dispute with Japan] and it is now in the hands of you and Knox — the Army and the Navy."240 Envoys Stationed in Japan Support the Proposal for a Modus Vivendi On the other hand,... | |
 | Paul F. Boller - History - 1996 - 292 pages
...any concessions. "I have washed my hands of it," he told Secretary of War Stimson the following day, "and it is now in the hands of you and Knox — the Army and the Navy." The Japanese, he added, "mean to fight and you will have to watch out."7 By early December... | |
 | George W. Baer - History - 1996 - 572 pages
...negotiation period, Hull concluded the time for diplomacy was over. Hull told Secretary of War Stimson, "I have washed my hands of it, and it is now in the hands of you and Knox, the Army and Navy."80 Even more important was a structural problem. The government did not make civil-military coordination... | |
 | Robert A. Theobald, John T. Flynn - Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 - 1996 - 132 pages
...Stimson telephone Hull. Stims9on wrote in his diary: "He (Hull) told me he had broken the whole thing off. As he put it: 'I have washed my hands of it and it is in the hands of you and Knox, the Army and Navy.'" The next day he told the British Ambassador the... | |
 | Warren F. Kimball - History - 1998 - 440 pages
...shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves." As Hull told Henry Stimson, the secretary of war, "it is now in the hands of you and Knox — the Army and the Navy." A flamboyant proposal written by Treasury Department official Harry Dexter White called... | |
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I have washed my hands of it and it is now in the hands of you and Knox— the Army and the Navy. 
