Word: tsuru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japanese magazines and newspapers Tsuru has criticized American H-bomb testing in the Pacific, restrictions on Japanese trade with Red China, and "America's over-eagerness to expedite Japan's rearmament." He noted that his criticism had been directed toward specific policies, and expressed admiration for the American people and culture...
Describing his views as close to those of Fabian Socialism and, on the international level, Nehru's neutralism, Tsuru said he gradually shifted toward "realism and moderation" as he matured. He was first disillusioned by the Hitler-Stalin Non-aggression Past...
Interested in the economic implications of militarism in Japan and of the international Depression during the early 1930's, Tsuru decided to major in Economics here after transferring from Lawrence College...
...Tsuru felt he developed "quite radical views" during 1936-37. He promoted the Marxist magazine, Science in Society, and associated with many individuals who held Communistic views. Among his friends was the late E. Herbert Norman, whom he described as "a moderate, quiet academician." Norman, accused of Communism during the U.S. Senate investigation, committed suicide last week in Cairo, where he was Canadian ambassador...
...coming to doubt my own skepticism, bu there has not yet been any drastic change in my views. I am ready to be persuaded and I should like to learn from my colleagues here," Tsuru continued...