Word: ichi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SCAP headquarters, in Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building, is policed by members of General Matthew Bunker Ridgway's Honor Guard-strapping six-footers, starched and polished, who stand their appointed watches day & night at the entrance and in the gleaming marble corridors. In the dead of night last week, Honor Guard Corporal Linwood C. Smith, a Purple Heart veteran of nine months in Korea, took a ten-minute break, wandered into Ridgway's outer office. There he saw a box of Whitman's Sampler chocolates. Knowingly and willfully, Corporal Smith did then & there remove...
...secret that SCAP's proposals for carrying out the terms of the security pact amount to little less than straightforward continuation of many aspects of the occupation. Ridgway's advisers would like to keep the Dai Ichi Building (No. 1 symbol of the occupation), the Imperial Hotel, the Ernie Pyle Theater and a host of lesser buildings and facilities in the Tokyo area. Even more important, particularly in the Orient where the word itself is anathema, the Army wants complete extraterritoriality for its military and civilian personnel. The prospect of such privileges led one member of the Japanese...
...Thursday afternoon, in neat but well-worn combat fatigues, his celebrated hand grenade dangling from his paratrooper's harness, Ridgway drove toward the Dai Ichi headquarters of SCAP. A block away he saw a waiting crowd of 3,000; impulsively he turned back to pay his respects to MacArthur first. The new SCAP and the old spent an hour together at the American Embassy. "A delightful talk," said Ridgway later. That evening he went back to Korea...
Once more in Tokyo, Ridgway checked in at a newly refurbished four-room suite in the Imperial Hotel. He started doing business from the hotel. He demurred at using the Dai Ichi building until after MacArthur had left...
...arrival in Tokyo of a bevy of top Washington brass for secret powwows with Douglas Mac Arthur. Besides Collins, the visitors included Air Force Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg, Central Intelligence Agency Chief Walter Bedell Smith, Army Chief of Intelligence Alexander Boiling. Guesses flew thick & fast around the Dai Ichi building, ranging even to the surmise that Nationalist China's armies on Formosa might be brought to bear against Mao Tse-tung's hordes...