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...Campbell and other TIME staffers throughout the world. With President Eisenhower on his final scheduled trip in office was his TIME shadow, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr. When the party arrived in Manila, Mohr was joined by Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow, and both went on to Ike's next stop, Formosa. Through the week their cables to the editors in New York were supplemented by reports of reaction to the Far East drama from Paris, London, Bonn, New Delhi and virtually every other capital in the world...
...only 48 hours after his arrival in Manila from Alaska that President Eisenhower got the news from Japan. ¶In the span of those few hours, Ike's reception had been a blazing triumph, hailed by more than a million Filipinos, flower-laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military...
...Ike settled into his leather chair, Goodpaster leaned forward and began whispering into the President's left ear. Ike's head snapped around. The two talked for about a minute, as President Garcia, sitting at Ike's side, politely assumed an air of interest in the parade. When Ike turned again, his face told the story: his mouth turned down; his eyes, framed with crowfoot lines, squinted. Then he shook his head and pursed his lips. Turning back to Goodpaster and to Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, who was close by, Ike said: "We better get something...
...Single Cause. Ike shrugged off his brief reverie to accept the Order of Sikatuna, rank of Raja, from Garcia (the Philippines' highest decoration for foreign heads of state). When the speeches were done, he met with his staff at Malacanan Palace, dictated a statement that expressed his "full and sympathetic understanding of the decision taken by the Japanese government," and his "regrets that a small, organized minority, led by professional Communist agitators . . . have been able by resort to force and violence" to prevent the good-will visit. Said Ike that night: "I would have liked to go-I still...
Journey to Understanding (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ike in Asia...