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carried out in a thoroughly hearty and genuine manner. It has en-
tailed many banquets and other meetings, and all too many speeches.
In this respect the undersigned has been called upon to do what he
considers as more than his rightful share, for in dealing with the
same subject in. four public addresses and three written messages the
streams of inspiration are likely to run dry. At any rate, it may
safely be said that the matter has been approached from every pos-
sible angle, the memory of the distinguished Commodore and of our
first Consul and Minister to Japan has been highly and fitly honored,
while "the friendly relations so happily existing between the United
States and Japan have been cemented" as almost never before.
  The celebration opened with a Japanese-American radio hook-up
on March 30. On this side the addresses were made by Viscount Ishii
and myself, on the American side by Ambassador Saito and former
Ambassador Roland S. Morris. The American program came
through to Japan with perfect clarity. Copies of my address on that
occasion and also at the luncheon of the combined Chambers of Com-
merce and Industry of Tokyo and Yokohama, attended by some two
hundred prominent officials and business men, were forwarded to
the Department with my despatch No. 728 of April 4, 1934.25 The
texts of the subsequent two speeches at Shimoda and before the
America-Japan Society are to be found in newspaper clippings en-
closed herewith.26 The local press reports of all of these speeches
appear to have been favorable.
  The meeting at Shimoda was a really inspiring affair. In attempt-
ing to convey a picture of it to the Department I can perhaps best
enclose a very informal excerpt from my diary of that day, as well as
a few photographs.25 That meeting brought home to me the genuine
respect in which the memory of Commodore Perry and Townsend
Harris is held in Japan and I for one was very much moved by it all.
  Respectfully yours,                           JOSEPH C. GREW

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             Memorandum by the Secretary of State

                                   [WASHINGTON,] May 16, 1934.
  In accordance with his personal request made of me prior to the
middle of April for a confidential and purely informal conversation
about affairs as they exist between his Government and the Govern-
ment of the United States, I met the Japanese Ambassador at my

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