Word: anti-american
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...Nationalist China's steaming capital of Taipei, a question of courtroom justice touched off the ugliest and most violent anti-American riot in Formosa's history. Unlike many anti-U.S. outbreaks in the Far East and elsewhere in recent years, last week's riot was no carefully organized manifestation of left or right, but a spontaneous, flash-fire uprising. And because it was misunderstood, and its consequences unforeseen, it very nearly became something worse...
...Admiral Hubbard's decision last week, Secretary Wilson quickly received support from U.S. veterans' groups, criticism from the Japanese for his "lawless, wayward attitude." At week's end Girard was still in U.S. hands, and the "Somagahara incident" was becoming a rallying point for a swelling anti-American movement in Japan...
Stung by the Beaver's bite, ITA Director Sir Robert Fraser hit back, called the attacks "anti-American feeling thinly disguised." American films, said Fraser, do not account for more than 14% of the total running, while ITA 13 selling British films to U.S. TV at a chip that pays for all U.S. imports. "And remember this," Fraser told a London Rotary Club. "Americans have acquired such a mastery of TV film techniques that we can apply no better stimulus to our producers than to let them see how it is done...
...probably still called anti-American in Japan, but they misunderstand me," Tsuru Shigeto '35, visiting lecturer in Economics, declared as he attempted to clarify his political position following his appearance before Senate investigators last month...
Tsuru testified that he had been criticized in Japan during the post-war period as "anti-American," but he stated that, despite his criticism of U.S. policies, "I am not anti-American...