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Last week the Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., Kensuke Horinouchi, called on the Assistant U. S. Secretary of State, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. No more dissimilar diplomats ever confronted each other. Mr. Horinouchi looks and acts like an animated cartoon of a Japanese statesman. Mr. Berle looks somewhat like a white mouse. But behind his pallid exterior he hides a talent for positive statement, a certainty that he knows what's what...
...Washington Japan's Christian Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi admitted to newsmen that his country had given Britain and France "friendly advice" to go home. This was because they were at war. Then the Ambassador casually played his ace. The U. S. is not at war. The U. S. and Japan should be friendly. It was too bad, he said, that since denunciation of the U. S.-Japanese trade treaty of 1911 there would soon be no commercial arrangements between the two countries...
...home in Tokyo, Ambassador Horinouchi's Embassy counselor, big, pleasantly pompous Yakicniro Suma, complemented his chief's words by publicly regretting the U. S. animus, and especially the U. S. Navy's, towards Japan. The toast among young U. S. naval officers, he said, is: "Remember the Panay...
...International Settlement ought to give way to Japanese defense-of what would then no longer be an International Settlement. But lest this be construed as a tug at Uncle Sam's goatee, Japan meanwhile continued to polish an apple for its teacher in western ways. Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi called on Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington as the first step in "adjusting relations...
Later, off the rostrum, Ambassador Horinouchi smiled some more and said...