Word: japanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. hoisted the signals for a reappraisal of one of the fundamental policies of his Administration: the longstanding U.S. quarantine of Communist China. Last week, reflecting his own personal convictions, mounting pressure from such trade-strapped allies as Britain and Japan and the pleas of some elements of U.S. business, he made it clear that he believes that present tough trade restrictions on Peking are not realistic for the long pull...
Whatever the validity of these conflicting positions, the President last week clearly took his stand with those who believe that a limited resumption of Red China trade is inevitable-certainly for Japan and Britain, to say nothing of other trading nations. He did so at considerable risk of weakening an important U.S. position : in much of Asia, such a move would be regarded as a first step toward an eventual reversal of Washington's "tough China" policy-a step which the Peking-style China Lobby will do its best to stretch into diplomatic recognition of the Peking regime...
...official exercise, he was subject to Japanese justice. Last week, in a joint statement issued at the Pentagon, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson finally ruled that Girard's specific action "was not authorized," was subject to the primary jurisdiction of Japan...
...Remember Pearl Harbor!" "For the sake of good relations between Japan and America we shall conduct a fair trial," said the Japanese chief district justice slated to try Girard. But the voice of Tokyo was soon drowned out by the growing uproar in the U.S. "Sold down the river," cried the Veterans of Foreign Wars; TO THE WOLVES, SOLDIER, cried the New York Daily News. In Girard's home town, Ottawa, Ill. (he lived there in the family trailer one year before enlisting in 1953) relatives and friends got up a 182-ft. petition protesting "a clear violation...
...investigation. District Court Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy directed U.S. authorities to show cause why Girard should not be returned to the U.S. "You're a national hero," Girard's brother told him by transpacific telephone from Ottawa. Whereupon Specialist Girard, who had won considerable public sympathy in Japan by virtue of having a Japanese fiancee, sacked his Japanese lawyer (selected by him and paid for from U.S. funds) and flirted with the idea of playing to the hilt the new role that his brother and the headline hunters had mapped...