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FOREIGN RELATIONS (See Cover) The battle began at dusk under a driving rain. In four days Dwight Eisenhower was due to arrive in Tokyo, and, simultaneously, the revised U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty would pass its last legal hurdle in Japan. With unflagging fanaticism, Zengakuren, the tightly disciplined, Communist-led student federation, mobilized its forces for a supreme assault on the government of Japan's wispy Premier Nobusuke Kishi...
...start of the conflict, Douglas MacArthur II clearly underestimated its potential dangers to the U.S. Though he warned, "I don't exclude physical violence and mob scenes," he admittedly did not foresee the possible mobbing of Dwight Eisenhower himself. The miscalculation was understandable. When Ike's trip to Japan was planned five months ago, it was assumed that he would arrive in To kyo fresh from Moscow, impregnable in the mantle of a peacemaker and relaxer of East-West tensions. Another misadventure MacArthur could not reasonably have been expected to foresee was how fatally Nobusuke Kishi would play...
...looked on in dismay. Ambassador MacArthur welcomed Hagerty and his companion. Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens; the three paused briefly for photographs and then hurried to the ambassador's official black Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled to drive the same route with Emperor Hirohito by his side. All three cars bowled along at high speed, but as the Cadillac emerged from the underpass and ascended the curving rise. MacArthur's Japanese chauffeur saw the students squatting en masse on the road...
This week, as President Dwight Eisenhower flew to Manila, he found the administration engaged in an activity familiar to machine politicians in any imperfect democracy: it was frantically trying to clean house before it faced the voters...
...months old when, in 1940, its co-owners split politically for the first time. Alicia published an endorsement of Franklin Roosevelt; Harry, a deep-dyed Republican, countered with his own announcement in support of Wendell Willkie. The Guggenheims were agreed in favoring Republicans Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 and Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. And Harry good-naturedly kept his peace in 1956, when Alicia switched to Adlai Stevenson...