Word: kono
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Even monkeys fall from trees," runs an old Japanese proverb. Last week the wiliest arborealist in the Japanese political jungle crashed ingloriously to earth. He was Liberal-Democrat Party Board Chairman Ichiro Kono, the beady-eyed, roly-poly little man who for a decade has personified in his countrymen's minds the guile of political party intrigue...
...Kono's fall was assured by the way he helped put Nobusuke Kishi in as Premier in 1957. "I arranged that Kishi should be Premier," boasted Kono. who previously had more or less managed the government of doddering old Premier Ichiro Hatoyama. "I intend for him to hold the post for about two years. At the moment I am a little too young for it." At that point Kishi was 60, Kono...
...wait meekly for his dismissal. Kishi cashed in on Japan's economic boom by sweeping last year's elections, and promptly edged Minister of State Kono out of the Cabinet to the party board chairmanship. Then last fall Kishi ran into heavy public and parliamentary opposition to his bill for beefing up Japan's long-feared police (TIME, Nov. 17). Though members of his own party joined in the criticism of the Premier, Kono urged him to go ahead and ram his police bill through. As the din in the Diet grew louder, Kishi saw a sweet...
...this point, Kono's enemies recalled another Japanese proverb: "Nobody is more stupid than the man who allows his pot to be stolen on a moonlit night...
Accompanied by his wife, a nurse (carrying a wheelchair) and his foreign-affairs brain, Ichiro Kono, aging Hatoyama hobbled out of his plane at Moscow airport, smiled gratefully as white-bearded Premier Bulganin took him firmly by the arm to help him down. Hatoyama was obviously flattered by the imposing list of Soviet notables attending the conference: "Some of their biggest men," said Ambassador Matsumoto. The visits began with banquets too rich for Japanese stomachs ("Oh, if they'd only cut the servings in half," muttered Mrs. Hatoyama), accompanied by toasts to the glories of Japanese culture...