Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although no formal agenda for the talks has been set, the subject matter is plain for all to see. Russia wants Japan to declare itself neutralist, and has in its power, if it wishes, the ability to pay the Japanese a formidable price, to wit: return of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; entry into the U.N.; return of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s and "war criminals"; trade and fishing concessions in Siberian waters. Some or all of these inducements, plus the "normalized relations" promised to the Japanese electorate by Premier Ichiro Hatoyama last February, might bring the neutralist pledge...
...willing to carry through my program for the country's good." Such talk plainly points to continued suppression of Apra, and no other party has managed to survive the politically barren years in any strength. By the present signs, therefore, Odria will stage a purely formal election vith a single, designated candidate...
...formal conferences broke up, the Russians were invited to Tito's Adriatic island of Brioni to be his guests in his glass-fronted villa overhanging the sea. Tito seemed a man who had things under control. Khrushchev had retreated by offering a concluding toast to the success of negotiations between the Yugoslav and Soviet "states"-no parties mentioned. Tito herded his distinguished guests around with an air of authority. When photographers asked if he could get one group closer together, Tito gestured at the Russian Premier, uttered one brusque word: "Bulganin." Bulganin came closer...
Then the Bible teacher appealed to the government itself, protesting indignantly that "in this school, sexual relations between pupils are entirely consistent with the highest conduct marks." A fortnight ago, at a formal Cabinet meeting presided over by Prince Bertil, son of King Gustaf VI Adolf, the government formally backed the school principal over the Bible teacher...
These two works--the first informal, current and American, the second formal, historical, and Japanese--represent distinct poles in Reischauer's career. For he is a scholar constantly concerned with current problems, a former government consultant who remained at all times an "academician" and a thoroughly American varsity tennis player with an almost intuitive understanding of his birthplace, Japan...