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John F. Kennedy, 29, boyish, rawboned, Harvard-bred son of ex-U.S. Am bassador Joseph P. Kennedy. To win the Democratic primary in Massachusetts' 11th District, which has rarely sent a Republican to Congress, ex-P-T boat-commander Kennedy made 450 speeches, plumped first for international issues, then switched to such local matters as the restoration of Boston's port and the encouragement of New England industries...
...Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek on a basis of American mediation, withdraw from all China south of the Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal U.S. -Japanese trade relations, Anglo-American recognition in principle of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, U.S. economic assistance to Japan...
...There is no chance," said he. But even as he spoke, other Senators were swelling with alarm at the London and Paris dispatches in their morning papers. Twenty years ago, they recalled, President Wilson, the State Department and unofficial Am-bassador-at-Large Edward Mandell House had played Britain's game. Now, they suspected, President Roosevelt, the State Department and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis were ready to play that game again...
...forthcoming collapse was unavoidable. Germany had a potent threat to hold over the heads of Reserve Board Members. The Cabinet was seriously discussing the advisability of declaring a moratorium on all private debts. U. S. investments in Germany since the War total $3.000,000,000. Am- bassador Sackett stayed up all Sunday night waiting to be helpful...
...call your attention to a statement in your issue of Dec. 7 under POLITICAL NOTES-"Il Penseroso," where you say of Mr. Robert Todd Lincoln, "In 1889 President Harrison sent him to London as Am- bassador." If my recollection is correct the first Ambassador sent to a regular diplomatic post of the U. S. abroad was Thomas P. Bayard of my native state of Delaware who was sent to the Court of St. James's by President Cleveland after the latter became President for his second term in 1898. Mr. Bayard had as you know been Cleveland...