JAPAN: Good-Bye?

"Bon voyage!" cried J. VanA. MacMurray, chief of the Far Eastern Affairs Division of the U. S. State Department, who was representing Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes. "I hope you will soon return to Washington!"

The person to whom these wishes were addressed was Masanao ("Smiling") Hanihara, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. Replied he: "I shall be glad to come back. My connections here have been so pleasant."

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