If Vice President John Nance Garner were of noble descent, and if he had a musicianly younger brother who, after years of self-sacrificing study, set out around the world as the only American capable of conducting the world's leading orchestras; if this younger brother finally arrived in Japan and, first in Kyoto, the third city, and then in Tokyo, the capital, before a brilliant diplomatic assemblage, conducted Japan's No. 2 orchestra—if such a thing came to pass it would be the precise reverse of what happened last week in Washington. Under the proud...
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