The "World Telegram" also pointed out that the Christmas holidays had partially redeemed their reputation as a season of peace and goodwill, The "Sun," in an editorial headed "Proof of the Japanese Pudding," said the test of "Japan's fair words is in the future."
"One objects to the campaign to eradicate the prestige of western nations among the peoples of Asia," the "Sun" said, however. "This purpose already has been largely accomplished....and the conduct of the Japanese in China will hereafter be even more closely scrutinized than before."
The "New York Herald Tribune," in an editorial entitled "Peace on Earth," said if the United States Note and the obvious relief with which it was received in Tokyo, did not "close" the Panay incident, "they at least eliminate all the more immediately dangerous possibilities."
"It is now unlikely," the paper said, "the name Panay will ever be indeed with estutenas that the Japanese timed their communication with Christmes,""—United Press,
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