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...tongued diplomacy," cried a supporter of ex-Premier Yoshida. "To the world, Shigemitsu professes antiCommunism. At home, he talks of coexistence." Shigemitsu denied the taunt, but the opposition catcalled "Liar! Liar!" Finally, Premier Hatoyama had to put himself once more on record, this time more guardedly: "On whether I intend to recognize Red China or not, I would like to point out that there are many factors involved, and I cannot say when...
...answer to this commonplace but treasured little parcel. They spread rumors; they issued warnings;they made a few arrests; they seized thousands of food packages; they appealed to pride. They tried force. Twice they sent flying columns of 1,000 or more bullyboys to West Berlin food centers to taunt the long, patient lines of East Germans. "Yankee bootlickers!" they cried. "Down with Ami beggar parcels!" With clubs and high-pressure hoses cops drove them away...
...Yorkers, still discussing Edna Ferber's taunt that their city was "the dirtiest in the world" (TIME, May 4), got some new criticism to chew on last week...
Mulrain called the Ferber taunt "an insult to my hard-working men," challenged his critic to join him in a garbage-seeking tour. The only difficulty was that Mulrain himself had deplored New York's "perennially filthy condition" while urging greater civic pride last February...
What do the Republicans propose to do in Korea? The question, so recently a taunt in angry campaign debate, is now a challenge written in the hard facts of the precarious U.S. position in Asia. Last week the U.S. got a look at a strong "positive proposal" for Korea drawn by New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, a ranking Republican policymaker. Bridges' proposal, published in the American Mercury, carried special weight because Ike Eisenhower reportedly read it in manuscript during the last days of the campaign...