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Terming the Panay bombing "a shocking blunder," Ambassador Saito said that there is "no compensation which mortal man can make that is adequate for the families bereft...
...When the showdown comes, the world will see that Japan has no unreasonable ambitions," declared Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassador, interviewed in his office at the Washington embassy during the vacation...
...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...
...took place just four days after the grimy little gunboat Panay settled in the mud of the Yangtze River bottom and its greatest ornaments were naturally Ambassadors Saito of Japan and Chengting T. Wang of China. Mr. Saito and his wife arrived first, narrowly missing an embarrassing meeting with Dr. Wang who with his pretty daughters Yoeh. An-fu. and An-hsiu, followed him up the White House steps. In the receiving line as Secretary of State Hull successively faced those dignitaries, he had the opportunity of seeing the fleshly embodiment of one of the strangest diplomatic situations that ever...
First apology came from Ambassador Hirosi Saito. When Secretary Hull got back to his office after his call on the President, he found wiry, worried little Mr. Saito waiting to extend "full regrets and apologies." In Tokyo, before U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew could make arrangements to transmit the President's note to the Tokyo Foreign Office, he received a call from Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. Later, in a formal note the Foreign Minister presented his Government's apologies for the incident and its promises to "deal appropriately with those responsible for the attack...