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Happily for Ike's week, the explosion of the Korean welcome still echoed next day as the President headed for Hawaii and. ultimately, for home...
Against the 4,000 steel-helmeted cops guarding Tokyo's Diet building, Zengakuren threw in more than 14,000 students who charged with cries of "Kill Kishi," "Down with the treaty," "Ike, stay home." Pulling away a barricade of parked police trucks, 3,000 of them finally thrust their way into the Diet compound, beating off police counterattacks with volleys of stones and pointed sticks wielded like spears. Meanwhile, those who remained outside set fire to 17 police trucks by stuffing burning newspapers into their gas tanks...
...decision to a dark, ruggedly handsome man who bears a name all Japan once honored. For Douglas MacArthur II, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo and the principal architect of present-day U.S. policy toward Japan, Kishi's retreat was an unhappy confirmation of his own growing doubts about the Ike visit. With a mixture of relief and bitter regret, Mac-Arthur phoned the news to the Eisenhower party in Manila...
...sportsman with a sportsman's love of bold action. Douglas MacArthur II fortnight ago decided to try to bring Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty into Tokyo by car instead of in the helicopter that stood ready at the international airport. MacArthur's explanation: As a test for Ike, "we had to find out just how far the mob would go." They found out when Zengakuren students mobbed MacArthur's limousine, tore off the American flag and forced Hagerty & Co. to retreat to the helicopter (TIME, June...
Even after that attack, MacArthur continued to recommend that Ike go ahead with the Tokyo visit unless the Japanese government itself asked him to stay away. But with the pointed firmness that has led one colleague to dub him "the man with the most leg drive in the Foreign Service," MacArthur also pressed Kishi's government for details of the security measures planned for Ike's arrival. When he learned that Kishi's chief security scheme was to organize pro-government demonstrations to counter the leftists, MacArthur cabled Washington that he could no longer hold...