NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, Aug. 28, 1941 

* United States & Japan tensions 
* Pacific War becoming imminent ?

The front page has a banner headline: "ROOSEVELT JOINS PARLEY AS JAPAN CRISIS NEARS" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display. 
Complete with all 30 pages, light toning and a little wear at he margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.

Background: What makes the August 28, 1941 meeting between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburō Nomura so extraordinary is the unprecedented nature of its core offer: a personal, signed letter from Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe proposing a direct, face-to-face summit in Honolulu or Juneau to avert war in the Pacific—an almost unheard-of diplomatic initiative for a Japanese prime minister at the time. Delivered just one month after the United States crippled Japan's economy by freezing its assets and imposing a total oil embargo in response to the occupation of French Indochina, the proposal represented Japan's ultimate effort to bypass standard, stalled diplomatic channels. The accompanying official statement offered rare, explicit assurances that Japan had no further expansionist ambitions in neighboring territories and defended its Indochina campaign strictly as a self-defense measure to secure raw materials. However, this high-stakes gesture was deeply fraught; while Konoe was secretly gambling that an agreement with FDR could help him restrain his own hawkish military back home, the U.S. State Department viewed the letter with intense skepticism, refusing to hold the summit unless Japan first agreed to withdraw from China and break ties with the Axis Powers—a deadlock that doomed the initiative, triggered Konoe’s downfall weeks later, and cleared the path for Hideki Tojo and the attack on Pearl Harbor.