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...products might be brought about in that way. He said he had no plans for venturing on a radical program for farm legislation, and was waiting for further reports on farm conditions. On the World Court, disarmament, debt funding, a new Ambassador to Japan (to succeed the late Mr. Bancroft), he was "receptive" rather than informative. The correspondents were obliged .'to retire with little grist for their papers. ¶ Shortly after Admiral Eberle's visit, correspondents announced that the President would soon have discouraging reports as to the possibility of effecting further economies in the administration...
...Bancroft took his Japan post last November. He was thrust at once into a situation tense with another race problem, into a country where racial ill-will was running strong because of the U. S. Immigration Act of 1924. Then, if ever, he had a difficult task...
Japan offered to send his body to this country aboard the cruiser Tama. President Coolidge expressed regret that was more than formal to the late Ambassador's nearest relative* -his brother, Frederick Bancroft, the historian...
...Bancroft was a childless widower...
Died. Edgar Addison Bancroft, 67, U. S. Ambassador to Japan; at Karuizawa, Japan, from an internal hemorrhage...