PERSONAL DIPLOMACY
Youthful Japanese Prince Calls at White IHouse The age of porsonal diplomacy has returned according to an American exchange. At noon one day recently there walkcd into the White House a smartly-dressed lteen-^yed, noticeahly Americanised young man. He was Prince Fumitaka Konoye, son of Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the Japanese Prime Minister. Prince Konoye hore to Presidont Roosovelt a personal message from his father, on alfnirs of state. The message was in the-vform of a letter, and its contents were disolosed to nohody, at least beforehand. The young man is an undergraduate at Princeton University. Prince Konoye did not come alone, though he may have delivered his message privately. He was aecompanied to the White House hy Mr Hugh L. Wilson, Assistant Seeretary of State, and Mr Hirosi Saito, Japanese Ambassadqr. From the State Department viewpoint, this was "all rather irregular," and they preferred little puhlicity on the visit.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 82, 30 December 1937, Page 9
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