Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Ichiro Hatoyama pushed through Japan's Lower House, by a vote of 239 to 139, a bill establishing an agency to prepare changes in the constitution along some recommended lines: ¶ Abandonment of MacArthur's proud clause proscribing war (intended to make Japan the "Switzerland of Asia") to permit Japanese rearming, with safeguards against return of the old military clique. ¶ An upgrading of the Emperor from the purely honorary position ("symbol of the state") he now holds to a position somewhere below the divinity ("sacred and inviolable") he once enjoyed. ¶ A partial return to appointment...
...mainland for a view of the Sultan of Johore's famed palace. Singapore's best hotel is the renowned Raffles, where rates average $20 per day for a double room v. $15 elsewhere. Best shopping bets: jade, Chinese scrolls and painted silk. Average tourist expense in Southeast Asia: $30 to $50 per day per person...
...Touring Asia on mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented...
...base, but it is of strategic importance to the whole pattern of Western defense in the cold war. It is Britain's command post for the Middle East; it guards vital sources of oil supply; it lies along the best line of communication between Europe and Asia; it is in an area where there is no satellite buffer zone on the Soviet Union's border. For those reasons the U.S. State Department has been watching anxiously the dispute between Britain and Cypriot nationalists who want enosis (union) with Greece. Behind the scenes the U.S. has been urging both...
...Help America Grow. Last week Banker Waugh was off on a three-week flying trip to Mexico and Central America to look over still more loan prospects, plans trips to Europe and Asia this year. He also hopes to encourage more small loans, bring more private capital into export-import trade, thus release more Ex-Im funds for new loans...