Editing Hull note (section)

==Delivery to and reception by the Japanese government==
On November 26, 1941, Hull presented the Japanese ambassador with the Hull note,<ref name="Hull Note">{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Cordell|title=Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement Between the United States and Japan|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/timeline/411126bpw.html|work=Peace and War: United States Foreign Policy 1931–1941|publisher=United States Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=2013-01-31}}</ref> which, as one of its conditions, demanded the complete withdrawal of all Japanese troops from [[French Indochina]] and China. Japanese Prime Minister [[Tojo Hideki]] said to his cabinet that "this is an ultimatum", although the note was marked as "tentative" and contained no deadline.<ref>[http://www.solarnavigator.net/history/pearl_harbour.htm "Pearl Harbour Attack – 7 December 1941"], solarnavigator.net{{fcn|date=November 2023}}</ref>