Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right to Decide. The decision was handed down in the headlined case of Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, who shot and killed a Japanese woman while on duty, but without authorization, on a rifle range in Japan last January. The sharp issue was whether the Administration had the right to decide -as it did decide-to grant a Japanese request for jurisdiction over Girard under the status-of-forces agreements. Federal District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy had held that since Girard acted while on duty, he had a constitutional right to a U.S.'court-martial (TIME...
...Japan, Soldier Girard telephoned his mother in Ottawa, Ill. to tell her: "Don't cry. I know I'll get a fair trial." He believed he would be acquitted by the Japanese court (presumably on a showing of accident). Maebashi District Judge Yuzo Kawachi, who will preside over Girard's trial, said the decision was "just what I expected-very good." In a banner-headline story, Tokyo's Asahi Evening News reported: "At no time since the signing of the San Francisco peace treaty have Japanese thought so kindly of the U.S. and the American ideal...
...what about non-realistic acting? "No matter what the style is," Strasberg said, "the same capacity of imagination is demanded--even in the most formal theatre, like the Noh drama of Japan. The result must be convincing and believable in any kind of theatre. The two greatest feminine performances I ever saw were given by Duse and Mei Lan-Fang; and the latter was the more notable achievement, for it had to overcome the greater handicaps." (Mei Lan-Fang was the foremost Chinese actor, and head of the Ching-Chung Monastery, who specialized in female impersonations). "In all kinds...
...Soviet Foreign Minister and for 51 years a 'hardheaded, hard-bottomed servant of Communism, was singled out for special attack. It "cannot be considered accidental" that he had repeatedly come out against "measures to improve relations between the U.S.S.R. and Yugoslavia," and was "against normalization of relations with Japan." He was opposed to the "different ways of transition to socialism" thesis, and "denied the advisability of establishing personal contacts between the Soviet leaders and the statesmen of other countries." The anti-party group was "shackled by old notions and methods," and Molotov in particular had "manifested a conservative...
...situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist putschs in Poznan and Hungary," and "its relations with so-called Marxist Parties of Poland, Italy, Japan...