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...that neither the Emperor nor his people felt so strongly about the sacredness of His Majesty, the first all-Japanese performance of The Mikado was all set to be played last week in Tokyo.* Nervous, white-haired Michio Ito, who had spent 20 years in the U.S. directing dance productions, had rehearsed the cast for two months. The 49-man Tokyo Philharmonic had been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping...
...with both a long-range issue (a charter for the proposed International Trade Organization) and a more immediate problem (the writing of new multi-lateral trade agreements), the same conflicting philosophics hamper both tasks. Fortunately America, upon whom the success of the sessions and the ultimate fortunes of the ITO and world trade rests, seems, at last, to have accepted its responsibilities...
Representing the only collegiate organization to testify before the committee, Schwebel will testify that his organization urges even greater power for the ITO than already is planned. The stated purpose of the proposed charter is to expand world trade by raising trade barriers and other distributes on international trade...
...last December is as far as ever from implementation. In December Clayton had said that the 16 "nuclear nations" who do the great bulk of the world's trade would meet this spring to cut tariffs and plan the establishment this summer of an International Trade Organization (ITO) as part of U.N. If Truman and Byrnes had decided to postpone this meeting, it would mean that the list of 2,000 U.S. commodities which State wants to offer for tariff reductions would not be published before November. An effective ITO was at least a year away, and meanwhile...
Barriers of Interest. The fault is not wholly with the U.S. All nations pay lip service to free trade; all fail to practice it. The British agreed to ITO in order to get the U.S. loan, but they fear that it means sacrificing their sovereign power over their own markets to become dependent on an economically undependable U.S. Many