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...Because the bombing of the gunboat Panay has made the U. S. more receptive to the idea of a bigger Navy and because a Naval building program would help depressed business, Washington was not surprised when Franklin Roosevelt wrote to Chairman Edward Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee...
...Peace. Without referring to the Panay incident by name, he said: "I am thankful that I can tell you that our nation is at peace. It has been kept at peace despite provocations which, in other days, because of their seriousness, could well have engendered...
...Government, the sinking of the U. S. gunboat Panay by Japanese bombers on December 12 is officially a closed incident. But to the U. S. public, which knew that two newsreel cameramen were among the Panay survivors, all the evidence was not officially in until the newsreels arrived. Last week, after a record ten-day rush from Shanghai via U. S. destroyer, China Clipper and cross-country plane. Movietone and Universal reels gave the last word on what happened to the Panay...
...brilliant example of one of the most potential sources of war that has hit the nation since the British propaganda bureau was established in New York during the war in now on display here in the form of the complete pictorial scenes of the Panay bombing...
...same scale of indemnity Japan would owe the U. S. $5,220 for the three men killed in the sinking of the Panay, but the U. S. settled for an apology, promise of indemnity and guarantee against future attack (see p. 7). No Japanese newspaper printed the text of the apology, and the divine Emperor Hirohito-who did not feel that politeness required him to reply to President Roosevelt's personal protest-opened the Imperial Diet with a Speech from the Throne which omitted mention of the Panay. "We feel greatly gratified to see relations between Japan...