RMA Presents: “Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor”
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Greenwich Sentinel·
- October 3, 2023·
Coming from a privileged Boston family background, Joseph Grew dedicated his life to the Foreign Service, and in 1932 was appointed Ambassador to Japan by President Herbert Hoover. He became alarmed at the rising power of militarists in the 1930s, as exemplified by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. He worked with Japanese leaders to try to moderate their belligerent foreign policy, and tried to warn the US of the growing danger, but his superiors in the State Department undermined his efforts.
