We feel it unnecessary to announce that the terms the Empire of Japan recently offered are not satisfactory, but for the sake of diplomatic traditions we will do so. Your terms, so brusquely and improperly stated, are denied. We fear that your diplomats confuse the want to end a war with the inability to fight it - that is not so.

We ask that you not waste the effort again, unless the terms are drastically changed and more appropriately phrased.

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts. And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him."