This time the American press championed the Chinese. Reporting from a hospital ward filled with wounded Chinese women, Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune accused the Imperial Japanese Army of “irresponsible hysteria or merciless racial hatred.” President Hoover dispatched US Marines to Shanghai but only to protect American lives and property. His bottom line was that America had no dog in this fight. US correspondents disagreed. “Surrounded by Marines from California, Texas and Virginia, I watched the Japanese bomb the defenseless city,” wrote Reginald Sweetland in the Chicago Daily
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