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...equally shocked by Western bluntness. Yoshio Terazawa, executive vice president of U.S. operations for Nomura Securities, a giant brokerage house, recalls the dismay of a colleague who watched an American lawyer spend hours haggling over the fine print of a contract. In Japan, such matters would be settled by gentlemen's agreement...
...offend the members of the Government Department that some of their colleagues might be accused of war crimes; however. the question will not disappear in the face of out-raged manifestoes. As Professor Moise has recently observed, perhaps it is time to abandon the atmosphere of a gentlemen's club which pervades the Faculty, time to take the gloves off, even at the cost of personal friendship...
What is your pleasure, ladies and gentlemen of Harvard...
Last month, as Nixon presided over a meeting of the National Security Council that reviewed the U.S. China policy, three thick tomes lay on the table. "I've read all three papers, gentlemen." he said. "And I hope you have too." The three volumes were the outcome of the review undertaken by Kissinger's staff; they dealt with diplomatic recognition, the U.N. representation issue, and trade and travel. The President took no immediate action on the problems in the first two categories...
...favor of the idea of political punishment, but I'm also not in favor of the idea of ignoring basic moral issues and papering them over with 'we're all colleagues and friends and gentlemen,'" Kelman added...