Word: ministere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kishi would need all his aplomb in the coming month as he tours eleven countries in Europe and the Americas. His object : to gain face for his countrymen, who morbidly nurse a national feeling that Japan, while growing economically strong, is still "the orphan of Asia," disliked by its neighbors...
There is a constant hoarding of rebuffs. Australia's Foreign Minister Richard Casey was recently in Tokyo, and things went swimmingly until he was asked when Australia would admit a limited number of Japanese. Said Casey: "Never!" Commented a bitterJapanese: "Australia bars Asians; Japan has 1,500,000 abortions...
Old & Tired. In his exile at Mussoorie in northeast India, Tibet's rightful ruler, the Dalai Lama, declared that "wherever I am accompanied by my ministers, the people of Tibet look upon us as their government." His mild statement of sovereignty was attacked not by the Red Chinese but...
Most of the OAS members were swayed not by treaty but by Trujillo's long and bloody record. "The Rio treaty is not a piece of paper at the service of dictators!" shouted Cuba's Minister of State Rauú Roa, and other delegates nodded their agreement. Cuba...
Birrell, a Presbyterian minister's son and a lawyer, began his jiggery-pokery after he got control of Swan-Finch in 1954. He increased the oil company's shares and exchanged them for the assets of other firms. The indictment charges that one of his biggest coups, the...