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what my old friend, Nelson Johnson, at that time the American Ambassador, had said to me soon after the Japanese invasion of China, to the effect that we were watching one of the most fateful dramas of history, with seats in the front row but powerless to do anything but look on and interpret. I remember wondering at the time whether the representative of the United States need be only a spectator. Yet, here was I sitting luxuriously in a private box watching an even more heartrending performance.
