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...Japanese way, like the Japanese themselves, has been but faintly understood by the rest of the world. Prewar insularity, wartime brutality and postwar docility have confused even those who thought they were in the know. This week, in a crisp, lucid book called Five Gentlemen of Japan, the outward confusion is shaken down to meaningful comprehension. What Author Frank Gibney has tried for, and achieved, is a character analysis of the Japanese nation. He has succeeded-perhaps better than anyone else so far-in explaining how decent Japanese could become the brutes of Bataan and Manila, why they...
...years, and had found nothing but a desire to dig at the truth, and the press had been open and forthright about it. This is the kind of relationship, the President said, that he and the press are going to continue. Then for 16 minutes Ike delivered some crisp statements, covering five main subjects, announced that there would be some time for questions on the subjects he was discussing when he finished, but that he had to leave to keep an 11 a.m. appointment. In the 15 minutes they got, reporters managed to squeeze in 18 questions, got as many...
Wherever the train stopped, there were warm, affectionate crowds. At Jefferson City, Mo., a woman admonished Truman in crisp, motherly tones: "Put your hat on. We don't want you to catch cold." But the reception Harry Truman was eagerly looking forward to was the one at Independence. Said he: "I guess they'll put the big pot inside the little pot and break both of them...
Captain Lavin sums up the Army's current policy in crisp G.I. language: "Nobody is going to chicken out if I can help it." Roughly four-fifths of Korea's psychiatric cases now go back promptly to combat. Nearly all the rest get forward duty in service companies. And the system works: of the men returned to duty after up-forward psychiatric care, only 10% have to come back for more...
Breaking the Locks. Starkly simple as it was, the crisp, one-track sound of Pinay's program had a decisive effect in the Assembly. Opposed by the two biggest blocs in Parliament-the Socialists and the Communists-Pinay nevertheless assembled a majority willing to join him in the battle of the pocketbook...