Word: yoshida
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...only is it more difficult to offer definite guides for administration, but the lack of Congressional approval provides little security to men like Premier Yoshida of Japan who have repeatedly called for American assistance. Also, there are numerous FOA personnel who must plod through the quick sands of doubt in day to day operation of the program. In Indo-China alone, the FOA has 120 men helping with the long range assistance, involving $100 million for this fiscal year alone...
There they learned that Radford had left for Europe several days earlier, and nobody had bothered to cancel the Yoshida appointment. Turned loose in the Pentagon maze once more, the Premier and his aides wandered around uncertainly until a reporter noticed their bewilderment and escorted them out of the building...
Cool Answers. The Premier's official mission-aid for Japan-ended on an equally uncertain note. On the eve of Yoshida's arrival the State Department announced that the U.S. was prepared to sell Japan $100 million in surplus wheat and cotton...
...Yoshida had grander ideas: something like $400 million in "investment help" to rebuild the island empire's economy and thereby renew her moldering industry...
...Press Club speech the round little Premier suggested another aid program along the lines of the Marshall Plan, which would extend $4 billion to non-Communist Asia, including Japan. With his proposal Yoshida coupled a warning: "Somewhere, somehow, a way must be found to increase [current] help, if these underdeveloped areas are to survive in the free world family ... Action less noble, less decisive than that which I have outlined will not be enough to tip the scales...