Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hatoyama's first choice as Defense Minister was Kichisaburo Nomura, the one-eyed ex-navy officer who was feigning negotiations in Washington as Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor. Protests came thick and fast: since Japan's constitution requires civilians in Cabinet posts, ex-admirals do not qualify. In the U.S. view, Nomura would have been a better choice than the man who actually got the Defense Ministry post; Arata Sugihara, a bureaucrat-turned-politician who has egged on Hatoyama to more and more flirtation with the Communist powers. Washington was pleased, however, with the retention as Foreign...
...only sketchy Yalta stories, the Times set in type and printed the full text of the 200,000 -word Yalta Conference record, along with news stories, pictures and editorial comment. It ran nearly 32 full pages, the longest text the paper has ever run (second: the 15-page Pearl Harbor Report...
...Ferguson was a Taftman at Chicago, but later, as Republican Policy Committee chairman, he became a loyal Eisenhower Administration man in the Senate, leading the fight for Ike's military budget. White-thatched Homer Ferguson, 66, is noted for gentle friendliness, dogged fact-searching (during the Pearl Harbor probe, he grilled General Marshall for a week running) and as a worrier, particularly about things that offend his sense of rectitude, e.g., the congressional pork barrel. Twelve years a Senator, he was defeated last fall by Democrat Patrick McNamara. His legislative experience should stand Ambassador designate Ferguson in good stead...
...rubbing against and invisibly changing the other, but never allowed quite to melt into one pattern. This frictional interplay was going on long before the Americans arrived with their atomic bombs, occupation army and MacArthur's new constitution. For 70 remarkable years after Commodore Perry steamed into Uraga Harbor, Japan, under the enlightened reign of Emperor Meiji, force-fed itself on all the Western notions, inventions, techniques and customs it could absorb...
...summer of 1938, Columnist Walter Lippmann, brooding about the "mounting disorder in our Western society," began to put his concern into book form. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he laid aside his manuscript to see what was going to happen to the world. When he returned to his task after war's end, he found that "something had gone very wrong in the liberal democracies . . . They were unable to make peace and to restore order...