Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smilingly acknowledging the banzais of his welcomers, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi returned to Tokyo last week from a six-nation tour of Southeast Asia. Then he went off to the pines and waterfalls of a mountain resort to prepare himself for a more crucial assignment, his state visit to the U.S. next week...
Kishi's tour of Southeast Asia was designed as a prelude to his U.S. visit: he wanted to claim to speak for Asian opinion. In New Delhi Kishi outlined to Jawaharlal Nehru his own plan for a U.S.-financed billion-dollar Asian development program, listened in mild surprise when Nehru labeled the idea "American aid in disguise." In Rangoon Kishi impressed his Burmese hosts with Japan's desire to supply technical know-how to other Asian nations. Somewhere along the way he came down with a case of dysentery. (It may be pure coincidence, but the head...
...this seemed to suit Phetsarath just fine. He announced he would now tour the southern provinces, picking up more hibiscus blossoms and kowtows. Wrily old Phetsarath, who is possibly the best big-game hunter in Southeast Asia, would be delighted to let confusion reign indefinitely in both Luang Prabang and Vientiane. If things get too badly snarled up, he might be willing to take over the premiership himself. And after that, who knows? He might even bag his uncle's white umbrella...
...DEAL is being discussed for St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch, nation's No. 2 beermaker, to buy Manhattan's money-losing Ruppert brewery (Knickerbocker brand), thus get out ahead of Milwaukee's front-running Schlitz. Anheuser-Busch wants to buy a new brewery in East or Southeast...
...frustration naturally nourishes the feeling of latent bitterness against the Americans." If the riots "lead to fresh thinking about Formosa," said the Manchester Guardian, "they will have done some good." The U.S.-baiting weekly Spectator argued: "American diplomacy has been playing at blind man's buff in Southeast Asia. The time has now come to bring the game...