JAPAN: Courtesy

Cyrus E. Woods, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, who recently arrived in San Francisco from Tokyo, said of the Japanese during the earthquake: "In the midst of the horrors the thing that impressed me most was the unfailing courtesy of the Japanese people, who still considered their guests first. The best illustration of this was the first night in the outskirts of Tokyo, where we herded on the lawn of a nobleman's house. No one knew who we were, but those wonderful people refused to allow any of us to sleep on the...

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