Word: matsue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl was installed in his living quarters near the seacoast town of Shimoda. Long before she caught the consul's roving eye, Okichi was renowned for her beauty, her regal bearing and her torch songs. Her true love was her childhood sweetheart, a peasant carpenter named Tsuru-Matsu. but after Townsend Harris' ultimatum. Japanese officials lured Tsuru-Matsu away from Okichi with promises of making him a samurai. On the rebound from this desertion. Okichi agreed to go to lonely, kindly Consul Harris, and she fell in love with her middle-aged diplomatic Pinkerton...
While both speakers specified their particular reservations to the topic, Fairbank in the main attacked the present U.S. policy, while Westerfield defended it. The only specific point of agreement came on the question of the offshore islands, Quemoy and Matsu, which each held indefensible...
...East, the communiqué warned Red China that the U.S. and Britain "were firmly united ... to deter and prevent aggressive expansion by force or subversion." Actually, as the course of the talks again made clear, Eden does not support the U.S. view that a Communist attack on Quemoy and Matsu could constitute aggression. Then the communiqué noted that the allied embargo on strategic trade with Red China "should be reviewed now and periodically ... in the light of changing conditions." During the talks Eden pressed the U.S. to let into Red China the strategic goods that it now lets into...
Formosa Strait, 1954-55. Dulles felt that the Communists were deterred from attacking the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu by the resolution, framed by himself and passed by the Congress, giving the President a free hand to use U.S. forces against the Communists if they attacked Formosa and related territories. Shepley added: "Dulles has never doubted, incidentally, that Eisenhower would have regarded an attack on Quemoy and the Matsus as an attack on Formosa...
...Chinese had shown their peaceful intentions by releasing four U.S. flyers (TIME, June 13); soon, Menon cooed, he thought the eleven other flyers still held prisoner in China would be released, too. In return, Menon hinted, it might be helpful if the Chinese Nationalists quietly abandoned Quemoy and Matsu...