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...said that his country was doing all in its power to prevent repetition of such an event as the Panay affair. "The naval officer who was in command of the aircraft squadron in Shanghai has been dismissed and recalled home," Saito revealed. "All other necessary steps are being and will be taken so that guarantees of safety will be assured all foreign persons and interests in the future...
Telegrams. While Franklin Roosevelt waited in vain for any answer from divine Emperor Hirohito covering the Japanese sinking of the Panay, he received a telegram from Alf Landon. A year ago, Alf Landon promised the President support in matters of international policy. Last week, Mr. Landon took advantage of the Panay sinking to reiterate his pledge...
...Times. In a masterly 4,000-word document, Statesman Stimson tore the Resolution to pieces as a device that would not only dangerously divide U. S. sentiment if there were a war but also would defeat its own purposes by so hobbling U. S. diplomacy that situations like the Panay bombing would be far more likely to lead to war than they are at present, Mr. Stimson's conclusion: "No more effective engine for the disruption of national unity on the threshold of a national crisis could ingeniously have been devised...
Hull, Hirota, Hopes. What caused the Panay incident to retain its high rating as an international crisis was the conspicuous delay of a reply to the State Department's demand for a formal apology, promise of indemnity and "satisfactory guarantees" that the episode would not be repeated. At week's end the formal apology finally arrived-just in time to be published in the U. S. simultaneously with a complete report of the bombing by the Panay's Lieutenant Commander J. J. Hughes and the findings of a naval court of inquiry which had been sifting eyewitness...
...neither Commander Hughes's report nor that of the naval court-both of which called attention to the unmistakable deliberateness of the attack-was there any indication that the bombing of the Panay was a mistake of the sort which Minister Hirota seemed to imply. Nonetheless, since the Japanese apology fulfilled all the demands made by the U. S., Secretary Hull quickly accepted it, merely calling attention to this difference of opinion in his reply. The State Department's note presumably closed the incident but made it apparent that a repetition might be much less easy to explain...