A quizzical little Japanese with black-rimmed spectacles, thinning black hair and a rumpled black suit stepped off a B.O.A.C. plane in New York City last week. He was immediately swept up in a round of lunches, lectures and broadcasts that would last through December. Fortunately, he was used to such treatment. Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, 62, well known to U.S. lecture audiences before the war as the "foremost Christian leader in Japan," had just finished a six-month tour of Europe.
He made his first speech at lunch, a few hours after his arrival. "Dear brothers and sisters in Christ," he began in his...