Word: discordances
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...Discord in Tokyo. Not everyone thought the problem so simple. For the next two days before the Diet, the opposition hammered at Hatoyama's Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, demanding that he clarify the Premier's offhand statement. Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri and was afterwards purged, had been reassuring everybody that "Japan's place" lay within the U.S. alliance. Now he hedged. "The problem must be studied from the viewpoint of treaty conditions and actual reality," he said. "Japan has recognized the Formosa government. But the appearance on the mainland of a large...
...with Red China. All week long Japanese officials paid studied calls upon U.S. friends to reassure them that full cooperation with the U.S. remains the "immutable foundation" of Japanese policy. The fact is, however, that Russia would pay much for Japanese recognition of Red China, and for the major discord among U.S. allies that such a move would signify...
Then came he evening's only discord--or rather, slight dissonance, since everyone felt too good to harbor grudges. Kenneth Mittell has composed a new football song that, while named "Cheer," brings little into the lives of football song enthusiasts. Nevertheless, last night's spirit encouraged prolonged applause for good and loyal tries...
While the boss was in Spain on a recent state visit, it appeared, Paulino had undertaken to further his ambitions by "sowing discord" to "divide and conquer" the armed forces. Item: Paulino humiliated a Trujillo favorite, Rear Admiral Lajaro Burgos, "calling him by the name of Napoleon, and not by his own true name." Explained El Caribe: "Assuming that Communism works by fomenting hate, stimulating the instincts of revenge and of conflict between individuals ... it has to be said that the policies to which Señor Anselmo Paulino Alvarez has been so boldly and poisonously dedicating himself are policies...
Death came to Europe's door last week and impatiently tapped out three initials: EDC. After four years of doubts and discord, the long-debated, much-despaired-of European Army treaty seemed irretrievably doomed...