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With the experiences back of him of going through the sinking of the Panay and witnessing over two hundred air raids while he was war correspondent for the United Press in two wars, Weldon James has settled down this year to the relatively quiet role of a Nieman Fellow in the University...
JAPAN "Remember the Panay...
...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...
...Yangtze near Ichang (in free China, 485 miles upriver from Hankow), Japanese bombers returning from killing natives sank two foreign vessels, the Jardine, Matheson & Co. river boats Kiawo and Hsin Chang Wo, and narrowly missed the river gunboat Gannet. British naval authorities suspected a new Panay incident-a test of what Britain would do in answer to direct, unprovoked attack...
Since the "China incident" started two years ago the people of Japan have been led to believe that the U. S. was, by & large, sympathetic to their aims. The failure of the U. S. to take action after the sinking of the Panay convinced them there was no danger of intervention; the dispatch to Japan this year of the U. S. cruiser Astoria with the ashes of the late Ambassador Hirosi Saito was played up by the Japanese press as a symbol of U. S. friendship and understanding. What sympathy the U. S. had for China was minimized...