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When Malta's 129,649 voters approved independence by a small majority last week, their tiny Mediterranean island joined Malawi, Zambia and Tanzan* in a gaggle of emergent nations that are twisting tongues and ending any pretense of proportional representation in the U.N. Others clamoring for nationhood include British Guiana (pop. 620,000), Southern Rhodesia (4,000,000), Bechuanaland (335,000) and Angola (circa...
...able to overthrow Yoshida only by entering into an alliance with the Socialists-even though his ultimate aim was to create an anti-Socialist force. Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama, who succeeded Yoshida, had suffered a stroke, and hung on for two trembling years before resigning. He was followed by Tanzan Ishibashi, who appointed Kishi his Foreign Minister and then fell ill in turn and resigned within 63 days. On Feb. 25, 1957, at the head of a combined Democratic-Liberal Party, Nobusuke Kishi became Prime Minister of Japan...
Japan's lean little Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the U.S.'s bulky rangy Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have one thing very much in common: they both like to travel. In the eleven months since he took over the premiership from aging, ailing Tanzan Isibashi, Kishi has set a dizzying pace. Last May he took off for a tour of six Southeastern Asian nations, followed up with a state visit to Washington. Last week Kishi was in the air again, this time on a tour of eight nations, including Australia and the Philippines...
...from which: 1) Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, were merged into the gigantic Liberal-Democratic Party and ranged in solid opposition to the Socialists and Communists; and 2) Kishi himself emerged last winter as Foreign Minister under 72-year-old Premier Tanzan Ishibashi. Four months ago, Nobusuke Kishi became his country's Premier (and his own Foreign Minister) when Ishibashi resigned because of bad health...
That night, as a single light shone from his bedroom window out on the deserted street, Tanzan Ishibashi penned his resignation. "I am sorry," he wrote, "that I have inconvenienced everyone...