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...Japan-American Trade Council. Last month the mission returned to Japan, gave an account of its trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst] campaign against them resulted in a tremendous volume of inquiries. The attacks were exceedingly valuable publicity, which...
Asked what he was going to do during the 23-day free ride which would take him to Yokohama, Kobe, Shanghai and Hongkong before reaching Manila, Vice President Garner observed: "We'll play a little draw poker, I suppose, and talk about each other. They say we may meet the Emperor of Japan. I've brought along a couple of pairs of new cotton socks so I won't be embarrassed like William Jennings Bryan. He had a hole in his sock when he took his shoes off to meet the Emperor...
...clock tonight I am leaving Yokohama for the United States,' he said, 'And probably I shall never see you again. You get married and enter a happy life. If you have a baby, send me a photograph of the baby.' Addressing the girl's mates, the foreigner said: 'If I had more money, I would have redeemed you all. But I have no more money. I had intended to travel first class but I have now to travel second class. Good...
...triangle." Contrary to pacifists' beliefs, the fleet would at no time approach within 2,000 mi. of Japanese territory or the Japanese fleet. Furthermore, on May 3, simultaneously with the beginning of the maneuvers. Admiral Frank Brooks Upham, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet, would steam into Yokohama harbor on his flagship Augusta for a "good will" visit. While this year's Pacific maneuvers involve the greatest tonnage since the War, the Secretary pointed out that the Navy has more tonnage available than it has had in a decade...
...mile trip from Yokohama to Tokyo a Japanese soldier stood beside the railway track every 60 feet, rigid at attention as the young man who was once plain Mr. Henry Pu Yi passed. In Tokyo all rail traffic in & out of Tokyo station was stopped for two hours; the entire railway station district was cleared. And Japan's Son-of-Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they...