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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...
...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...
...President Eisenhower's visit to Japan next month. Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi set out to prepare a modest present: the ratification of the revised U.S. Japan security pact. Howding with rage, the opposition Socialists launched a filibustering delaying action. They declared themselves fearful of "remilitarization," charged that the pact would make Japan a target in some future nuclear war between the West and Communism. When Kishi moved to end the uproar by using his clear majority in the Diet to ram through ratification, the opposition last week took to the streets...
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...
Free Lunch. Yet on the basis of last year's upper house elections-when Kishi and his Liberal Democrats won an overwhelming victory over the Socialist opposition-the rancor of the press hardly reflects the feelings of the voters of Japan. At week's end, when Kishi's plane touched down at Tokyo airport, 12,000 supporters (each provided with a free lunch box of beancake and rice) braved an icy, knifelike wind to cry "Banzai!" Although police had been massed to hold off student demonstrators who had rioted at Kishi's departure, the students...