JAPAN: Tokyo Team

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Like other U. S. Ambassadors, when delegated to negotiate and sign treaties, "Joe" Grew by a legal fiction is "Frank" Roosevelt. Were he to sign a treaty at Tokyo tomorrow, Ambassador Grew would figure in it as "[for] the President of the United States: Joseph Clark Grew."

In the case of Mr. Grew, though he is a Republican and cousin-by-marriage to J. P. Morgan, there is no incongruity whatever that he should be the President by a routine feat of diplomatic ectoplasm. Both men are Old...

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