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What Unrest? At a news conference announcing the cancellation of Ike's visit, Kishi angrily blamed the situation on a "minority mob." With their peculiar obtuseness, Japanese reporters murmured something about widespread "social unrest." Snapped Kishi: "There are baseball games being played right now to capacity crowds. Movie theaters have packed houses. Here in Tokyo, the Ginza is full of happy-looking pedestrians." Kishi spoke the truth. The Wednesday night riot that frightened his Cabinet was confined to a small area around the Diet. At the height of the uproar, there was a brisk and continuous flow of taxis...
...Kishi was still determined to sweat out final ratification of the treaty. The Socialists mustered their forces to demand a Diet recess, which would stall off ratification. Demonstrators seethed around the Diet building. Thousands of students attended the funeral of their "Joan of Arc," Michiko Kamba, and a flower-bedecked altar was set up at the spot where she had been trampled to death. In the Diet courtyard, where he was collecting signatures against the treaty, a Socialist bigwig was stabbed in the shoulder by a mechanic who said he was fed up with Socialist violence. Socialist Deputies cornered Kishi...
Dragons v. Giants. At week's end the Socialists massed 100,000 demonstrators around the Diet to shout futilely against the midnight ratification of the treaty. They carried signs reading "Kishi, Kill Yourself!" Across the street, in his official residence, Kishi passed the early hours of the evening watching a televised baseball game in which the Chunichi Dragons edged the Tokyo Giants, 3-1. Close to midnight, Kishi posed for news photographers and glanced at his watch. "Seven minutes more," he said, smiling. As the clock struck 12 and the Security Treaty was automatically ratified, he nibbled a sandwich...
Morning After. Next day, the Japanese newspapers continued their amazing mental acrobatics (see PRESS). The Tokyo Asahi, which had been violently denouncing the Security Treaty, blandly admitted that "there is a great improvement in the new treaty as compared with the old one." Nagoya's Chubu Nippon declared: "Kishi's resignation precedes all other conceivable measures as a way out of chaos, no matter how justifiable his stand may seem. Among other things he is responsible for, Kishi has to render an account of how he came to postpone the Eisenhower visit...
...Kishi's dedicated mission is nearly at an end. Once the U.S. Congress ratifies the Security Treaty and the documents are exchanged in Tokyo (possible date: June 27), he is expected to step down as Premier. His resignation will be followed by national elections, which even the Socialists concede will be won by Kishi's party, the Liberal Democrats. The likely new Premier: Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda, 61, who was one of the very few to support Kishi to the end. A Liberal Democratic spokesman said, "Kishi has become a scapegoat. He has taken on his own shoulders...