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...hand that reached out last week to pull the strings in Japan was-as both President Eisenhower and Premier Kishi said-the hand of organized Communism. In forcing Japan to cancel the President's visit, it administered a stinging slap to U.S. pride and prestige. No Red propaganda victory in years had so served to humiliate a President of the U.S. Coming in the wake of the U-2 dust-up and Nikita Khrushchev's party-line attack on Eisenhower at the summit, it was-as Moscow and Peking intended it to be-a blow...
Next day, as thousands howled their rage outside his residence, weary Nobusuke Kishi met with his Cabinet for the second time in 24 hours. After a brief session, he emerged to announce to newsmen the decision to ask President Eisenhower to cancel his trip. Then, in a gesture that emphasized the rebuff the U.S. had suffered, Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama formally reported the decision to a dark, ruggedly handsome man who bears a name all Japan once honored. For Douglas MacArthur II, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo and the principal architect of present-day U.S. policy toward Japan, Kishi...
...cordon of police, barbed wire and a high wall, the aging Premier could hear the voices crying, "Kill Kishi! Kill Kishi!" Deserted by most of his Cabinet, his chief of police and the weak-kneed leaders of his Liberal Democratic Party, Kishi had finally asked President Dwight Eisenhower to cancel his visit to Japan...
...become fairly routine. But this time the atmosphere crackled with a historic difference: the President of the U.S. was off on a two-week swing through the Far East with Japan a major stop, and howling, Red-led Japanese mobs were threatening bodily harm if he did not cancel his visit...
First Leg. "As you know," said the President in a brief statement before takeoff, "there have been public warnings that I should not visit the Far East at this time." Nevertheless, he felt a "compelling responsibility . . . within the American mission of free-world leadership . . . neither to postpone nor to cancel my visit ... If the trip now ahead of me were concerned principally with the support of a regime or a treaty or a disputed policy, if it were intended merely to bolster a particular program, or to achieve a limited objective, such a journey would have no real justification...