TOKYO, Monday, Dec. 1 — In the first official statement on the American proposals for a settlement of the issues in the Pacific submitted to Japan, Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo today rejected the principles underlying them as "fantastic," and characterized the American attitude as unrealistic and regrettable.

ABOARD THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL TRAIN, Nov. 30 — President Roosevelt tonight is rushing back to Washington to deal personally with the Far Eastern crisis as Japan's belligerent attitude brought closer the possibility of war in the Pacific.

From the New York Times