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...trade, most Japanese firms budgeted only a nominal amount for advertising and often treated this simply as a good-will fund. An advertising salesman would be politely received by a minor official, and, with typical courtesy, would be given a small ad or a modest fee, known as ashi dai (taxi fare or, more literally, feet...
SCAP headquarters, in Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building, is policed by members of General Matthew Bunker Ridgway's Honor Guard-strapping six-footers, starched and polished, who stand their appointed watches day & night at the entrance and in the gleaming marble corridors. In the dead of night last week, Honor Guard Corporal Linwood C. Smith, a Purple Heart veteran of nine months in Korea, took a ten-minute break, wandered into Ridgway's outer office. There he saw a box of Whitman's Sampler chocolates. Knowingly and willfully, Corporal Smith did then & there remove...
...secret that SCAP's proposals for carrying out the terms of the security pact amount to little less than straightforward continuation of many aspects of the occupation. Ridgway's advisers would like to keep the Dai Ichi Building (No. 1 symbol of the occupation), the Imperial Hotel, the Ernie Pyle Theater and a host of lesser buildings and facilities in the Tokyo area. Even more important, particularly in the Orient where the word itself is anathema, the Army wants complete extraterritoriality for its military and civilian personnel. The prospect of such privileges led one member of the Japanese...
...Natarajian, editor of the Bombay Herald, said here yesterday that "there is genuine anxiety in my country as to whether the West is backing the wrong political horses." He added that Indians think some U.S. backed rulers like Synghman Rhee and Indo-China's Bao Dai are "the scum of Asia...
...Lattre boldly attacked this Vietnamese doubt. He won over the distrustful Bao Dai and other leaders with his intense assurances that the old colonialism was dead. He exhorted village elders: "Attentisme, the double game, treason, are at an end . . . You are at war, and in war to compromise is treason . . ." He told the nation's youth: "Stand up like men . . . If you are Communists, join the Viet Minh . . . But if you are patriots, fight for your country, because this war is your...