*The [[USS Preble|USS ''Preble'']] arrives in [[Naha]], as part of an effort to open Japan for American commerce. They are ultimately unsuccessful; the ship's captain, a Commander Glynn, is petitioned to take missionary [[Bernard Bettelheim]] away with him, but he refuses on the grounds that Bettelheim was a British subject. | *The [[USS Preble|USS ''Preble'']] arrives in [[Naha]], as part of an effort to open Japan for American commerce. They are ultimately unsuccessful; the ship's captain, a Commander Glynn, is petitioned to take missionary [[Bernard Bettelheim]] away with him, but he refuses on the grounds that Bettelheim was a British subject. |