Word: matsudaira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, the debate had been for the most part one between the two old adversaries. But now, meticulous, bespectacled Koto Matsudaira of Japan spoke up for the first time to express his government's "misgivings" over the U.S. intervention, and said that he would try to seek some sort of compromise. To add to the U.S.'s discomfiture, bald Omar Loutfi of the United Arab Republic produced a letter from the president of the Lebanese Parliament denouncing U.S. intervention as an infringement of Lebanese sovereignty. Finally, as the second day ended, still another sour note was sounded...
...Washington, Johnny met Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira who advised him to get a change from the Pacific Coast atmosphere with its anti-Nisei discrimination and see something of the "older America." The ambassador remarked that his predecessor had received an honorary degree from Brown University. Johnny Aiso went to Brown, graduated cum laude in 1931, delivered the class valedictory. Then he went back to California, became a lawyer in Los Angeles...