711.94/2340
The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 2.]
Sir: I have the honor to enclose, in translation, a copy of an editorial8 from the Yomiuri Shimbun of July 28, 1941, entitled “Ambassador Nomura Endowed with Likable Personality” in which my name is incidentally mentioned.
It is encouraging in these days occasionally to find in a generally antagonistic press an article such as this and I am transmitting it to [Page 377] the Department merely with the thought that it suggests the desire still existing in Japan for a diplomatic adjustment of Japanese-American relations.9
Respectfully yours,
- Not printed.↩
- The editorial said, in part: “Whatever situation may arise between the United States and Japan in their diplomatic relations, no one will entertain any enmity against Ambassador Nomura individually. The same may be said of the Honorable Joseph Clark Grew, American Ambassador to Japan, who like Ambassador Nomura is endowed with an admirable character and whose general personality is so dignified and refined as to cause everyone to love and respect him.”↩