Editing William Randolph Hearst (section)

=== Position regarding Germany ===
According to Rodney Carlisle, "Hearst condemned the domestic practices of Nazism, but he believed that German demands for boundary revision were legitimate. While he was not pro-Nazi, he accepted more German positions and propaganda than did some other editors and publishers."<ref>Rodney Carlisle, "The Foreign Policy Views of an Isolationist Press Lord: W. R. Hearst and the International Crisis, 1936-41" ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 9#3 (1974), pp. 217–227, quote at pp 220–221. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/260031 online]</ref>

With "AMERICA FIRST" emblazoned on his newspaper masthead, Hearst celebrated the "great achievement" of the new [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]] in Germany—a lesson to all "liberty-loving people." In 1934, after checking with Jewish leaders,{{sfn|Nasaw|2000|pp=496-97}} Hearst visited Berlin to interview [[Adolf Hitler]]. When Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press, Hearst retorted: "Because Americans believe in democracy, and are averse to dictatorship."<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew|last=Nagorski|title=Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8KRh_hNVibMC&pg=PA176 |year=2012|page=176|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1439191026}}</ref> William Randolph Hearst instructed his reporters in Germany to give positive coverage of the Nazis, and fired journalists who refused to write stories favourable of German fascism.<ref name=":1" /> Hearst's papers ran columns without rebuttal by Nazi leader [[Hermann Göring]], [[Alfred Rosenberg]],<ref name=":1" /> and Hitler himself, as well as Mussolini and other dictators in Europe and Latin America.{{sfn|Nasaw|2000|pp=470–77}} After the systematic massive  Nazi attacks on Jews known as [[Kristallnacht]] (November 9–10, 1938), the Hearst press, like all major American newspapers, blamed Hitler and the Nazis: "The entire civilized world is shocked and shamed by Germany's brutal oppression of the Jewish people," read an editorial in all Hearst papers. "You [Hitler] are making the flag of National Socialism a symbol of national savagery," read an editorial written by Hearst.{{sfn|Nasaw|2000|p=554}}

During 1934, Japan / U.S. relations were unstable. In an attempt to remedy this, Prince [[Tokugawa Iesato]] travelled throughout the United States on a goodwill visit. During his visit, Prince Iesato and his delegation met with William Randolph Hearst with the hope of improving relations between the two nations.