Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Nikita's ranting performance, Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange abruptly cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow, and Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi rammed the revised U.S.-Japan treaty through the Japanese Diet. Wrote the London Times: "Once again the conviction has been forced uppermost that where Communist aggression is concerned, U.S. arms are our shield and U.S. steadfastness our foundation...
...tough answer to Nikita Khrushchev's threats to "atomize" all U.S. forward bases, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi decided to rush through the new U.S.-Japanese treaty of alliance which has long been stalled in the House of Representatives by opposition Socialists...
When Kiyose managed to croak out the words to open the session, all remaining Socialists and 27 members of Kishi's own Liberal-Democratic Party stalked out. Nonetheless, shortly after midnight, the House finally got around to passing the treaty by a standing vote. Then the 259 Liberal-Democrats present (quorum needed: 156) raised three throaty banzais and adjourned...
...government did make a formal protest, asked the U.S. "to take all necessary steps to avoid that similar landings are planned in the future." In Japan, where the U.S. currently bases three U-2s, the opposition Socialist Party seized on the issue to stall parliamentary ratification of Premier Nobusuke Kishi's new security pact with the U.S. With near-hysteria, London's Daily Herald called the U.S. a "summit saboteur," and the Daily Mail angrily described Eisenhower as "a tumbled titan . . . with inept hands...
What had they hoped to accomplish? Grumbled a student: "What else can we do against Kishi? Korean students had the right idea - look what happened to Syngman Rhee." A Korean newsman who had watched the riot said wonderingly: "They must be crazy. Korea and Japan are entirely different situations. Don't they know they live in the freest society on earth today...