[PeterPrinciple]

Liner carrying Americans is recalled by Japanese

...........the N.Y.K. “Silk Express” Liner Asama Maru was returning to Japan without touching a United State port because the Unites States had not given general assurances of the inviolability of Japanese ships.

The Asam Maru is carrying a number of American passengers and a large cargo of silk. ..........................

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Looks like we didn't get this shipment. Wonder why the US would not give assurances, sounds phoney to me with the silk and Americans on board. An excuse by Japan?

This is the sister ship of the Tatu Maru in prior articles. Sunk in Jan 1944 by USS Atule.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

This is the sister ship of the Tatu Maru in prior articles.

In case you missed it there is an article on Tatu Maru in the Life mag Cougar posted yesterday. See page 30. (Avert your eyes from page 29.)

[magslinger]

Wonder why the US would not give assurances, sounds phoney to me with the silk and Americans on board.

The way I read it, the Japanese wanted ALL Japanese shipping to be free of searches in American waters, not just the Asama Maru. Even that Commie Roosevelt wasn't that foolish.