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...initial a curt memorandum asking Secretary of State Cordell S. Hull to tell the Japanese Ambassador "that the President is deeply shocked and concerned by the news of indiscriminate bombing of American and other non-Chinese vessels on the Yangtze and that he requests that the Emperor be so advised...
...word, "requests" was written in the President's hand in place of "suggests" which appeared in the original draft. The memorandum also asked for a full apology, compensation, and guarantees against a repetition of such attacks. Since Japan's Emperor Hirohito, to Japanese minds, is a divinity who is not of the Government but above it, the knottiest problem posed for trie Japanese was 1) how to bring the matter to his attention or 2) how to avoid doing so without offending the U. S. By week's end Washington was assured that the Roosevelt note...
Japan's Navy Minister, Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, was called on the carpet before his Emperor to explain the Panay bombing and, as senior Japanese naval officer responsible under the commander in chief on the Nanking front, Rear Admiral Teizo Mitsunami, 48, was recalled to Japan in disgrace. From staff officers in Shanghai came fervent but indefinite suggestions of a voluntary subscription among Japanese sailors for the relief of the Panay's victims and an official salute was delivered over the Panay's watery grave. The Nichi Nichi raised a fund...
...mother country is unprecedented. The dominions are now regularly "consulted" on foreign issues by the British Cabinet. At League of Nations sessions the delegate of this or that dominion sometimes makes a speech which causes his London colleagues to shudder. But for Dublin to recognize Vittorio Emanuele III as "Emperor," whereas London recognizes him only as "King," was diplomatic mutiny...
Laborite members of the Dail spoke feelingly last week against Mr. de Valera. Labor Party Leader William Norton declared flatly that the Emperor "has no more claim to that title than His Britannic Majesty has to authority over Ireland, which was not given to him by the Irish people...