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In Washington, Saito likes to recall that he has had his eye on Franklin Roosevelt ever since Saito was a humble secretary and Roosevelt was a sub-Cabineteer. Today Saito has his eye more fixedly on Franklin Roosevelt than ever. He knows that President Roosevelt's new Navy is the most potent afloat, that it is still abuilding. He knows that Washington wiseacres see this Navy as a net to prevent the Japanese carp from becoming so exuberant as to try an Eastward leap. Hirosi Saito's job is to convince the man in the White House that, at any rate, the carp will not permit the net to roil his own Asiatic waters.
*Mme Saito, no commoner, is the daughter of the late Baron Dr. Shokichi Xagayo, granddaughter of the even more famed Baron Dr. Sensai Xagayo who introduced vaccination into Japan.
*Ambassador Saito's Washington Embassy and Minister Ariyoshi's Peiping Legation are twin cornerstones of Japanese world diplomacy. Minister Ariyoshi was transferred from Brazil in 1932. Japan's contact man in her recent devious dealings with Chinese politicos, he seldom remains in one place very long but plies between the Japanese diplomatic and consular offices at Nanking, Peiping and Shanghai.