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...Takao Saito, a flamboyant orator, a clever politician and a Yale man, asked three unprecedented questions in the lower House of the Diet: 1) How long will the China Incident last? 2) Exactly what does the phrase "New Order in East Asia" mean? 3) What return had the Japanese people had for all their heavy sacrifices...
...Army seethed. Dietarian Saito had "belittled Japan's holy war and defiled the souls of hundreds of thousands of dead" (official Japanese figures on Japanese dead: 70,000). War Minister General Shunroku Hata appeared before the lower House to answer the Saito attack with a charming speech about "peace in East Asia," "universal brotherhood," "good neighborliness" and a still undefined "New Order...
...Japanese aggression in Asia, especially if it went by such a nice name as "the New Order in East Asia." Blithely the Japanese infringed the rights of U. S. citizens and U. S. property, shut diplomatic eyes to repeated protests, eagerly grasped incidents like the carrying home of Ambassador Saito's ashes on U. S. S. Astoria as examples of everlasting amity. The U. S. openly gave China commercial credits, declared a moral embargo on certain war materials to Japan, and, last July 26, gave notice of abrogation of the 1911 treaty, effective six months later. But Japanese diplomats...
...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 as a vague feeling for the underdog; few contemplated the possibility that the U.S. might one day become exasperated over the increasing number of incidents...
...Sent Hirosi Saito's ashes home on a U. S. warship...