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Professor Tsuru Shigeto '35, visiting lecturer on Economics, told Senate investigators yesterday that he has never been a Communist, but that he had made some mistakes in his associations as a student here...
...Tsuru, who is a professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, told the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that some of his associates in the pre-World War II period were Communists or close to the Communist party...
...until the girl was installed in his living quarters near the seacoast town of Shimoda. Long before she caught the consul's roving eye, Okichi was renowned for her beauty, her regal bearing and her torch songs. Her true love was her childhood sweetheart, a peasant carpenter named Tsuru-Matsu. but after Townsend Harris' ultimatum. Japanese officials lured Tsuru-Matsu away from Okichi with promises of making him a samurai. On the rebound from this desertion. Okichi agreed to go to lonely, kindly Consul Harris, and she fell in love with her middle-aged diplomatic Pinkerton...
...Japanese called for the geisha to be spirited away whenever the "black ships" of the Americans were in port-and as these absences lengthened, Okichi consoled herself with sake. Consolation became alcoholic degradation, and Harris would have nothing more to do with her. No samurai, but still a carpenter. Tsuru-Matsu came back and married her; but love and liquor would not mix. When she was told that Townsend Harris had been buried "among the silent hills of Brooklyn." Okichi lingered on a few years, then suffered a paralytic stroke; dragging herself painfully to the banks of the Inubusawa River...
...Japanese, Professor Kiyoshi Shiratori, of the Peers' College of Tokyo, lectures on "The Origin of the Japanese Race and the 'Utsutsu-Gami'." Shigeto Tsuru '35 will interpret Professor Shiratori's words which are to be delivered in his native tongue. The place is Emerson 211 and the time 3 o'clock...