“Japan, If I Read Her Aright, Will Not Attempt to Ladle Broth for Her People Out of the Cauldron of War.”
- Mr. Bancroft in Tokyo
- Alert, sympathetic, practical, candid, tireless, Edgar Addison Bancroft, though only a few months in Tokyo, left an impression upon the Japanese mind as clear-cut as it was favorable. It may be doubted whether any other man in the American diplomatic service ever accomplished so great a moral result in so short a time. His mind was sanity itself, his character above reproach, his honesty inflexible. Acumen, astuteness, decision, nerve—he had…