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...Nevertheless Japan will try to be friends, according to her new Ambassador Nomura...
...Gave Ambassador Nomura his passport...
Washington and Moscow. In Washington last week arrived Japan's new Ambassador, Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, who had been greeted warmly in Hawaii by Admiral James 0. Richardson, but had found his reception chillier as he traveled east. President Roosevelt greeted him as "my old friend," but wore an air of utmost gravity. At his press conference the President made no effort to conceal the seriousness of U. S.-Japanese relations. The U. S., he indicated, might be "forced" into war in the Pacific. Yet how much it would take to force the U. S. into war, even the President...
Japan, like the U. S., was committed to a policy. Japan, like the U. S., was reluctant to follow it to war. But, as Kokumin said, Admiral Nomura's mission to "Washington had come too late: the two countries had gone too far. Japanese believed that the year 2602 would see Japan ruling one of the earth's richest dominions or returning to the way of her gods...
...such an atmosphere Japan's new Ambassador to the U. S., one-eyed Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, sailed for San Francisco with six glass eyes and a three-point policy. The policy: 1) Japan wall stick to the alliance with Germany and Italy; 2) Japan will be boss of the Far East; 3) if the U. S. will accept Points 1 and 2, Japan will try to be friends...