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...holding arms were still present, the world would not have been disarmed. Arms would simply be in a momentary state of suspension, preparatory to new and greater arms." ¶ "Many statesmen feel that weapons are in themselves evil, and that they should be eliminated, as you would crush a snake . . . I doubt though whether the tension created by the existence of arms is as great as the tension that would arise if there were no arms or too few arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISARMAMENT: Strange Climate | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...Fence Menders. With that, a curious sense of anticlimax swept Japan. Returning wearily to his home in suburban Shibuya, Kishi found it free of the yelling, snake-dancing mobs that have besieged it every day since May 20. Taking advantage of the calm, workmen were busy repairing Kishi's smashed gates and fences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Lull | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...summit, it was-as Moscow and Peking intended it to be-a blow to the U.S. image. Allies were apprehensive because the U.S. had allowed itself to get in such a fix. Peking and Moscow were jubilant; one called the President "a rat," the other called him "a snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Visible Hand | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...chanted the student rioters as, with locked arms, they snake danced crazily before Premier Nobusuke Kishi's suburban home. Behind drawn curtains, protected by a cordon of police, barbed wire and a high wall, the aging Premier could hear the voices crying, "Kill Kishi! Kill Kishi!" Deserted by most of his Cabinet, his chief of police and the weak-kneed leaders of his Liberal Democratic Party, Kishi had finally asked President Dwight Eisenhower to cancel his visit to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Expendable Premier | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines and puffed at a cigarette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ordeal by Mob | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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