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Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida is a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.), bouncy man of 76, who likes to wear old-fashioned wing collars and pince-nez and who like another well-known Prime Minister, has a fondness for strong brandy and premier-sized cigars. Last week Yoshida was in the U.S. on a twofold mission: 1) to pay a formal goodwill call, and 2) to find some economic succor for his hungry homeland. The protocol tour was a resounding success, but the fund-raising expedition turned out to be a disappointment for the little visitor...
Warm Welcomes. Yoshida arrived in the U.S. after a month-long tour of European capitals. Pausing in New York, he took time off for a quick trip through the Museum of Modern Art, where he was allowed two extraordinary privileges: 1) he was permitted to keep his glowing cigar as he whisked through the galleries, and 2) he didn't have to remove his shoes when he inspected the model Japanese home in the museum's garden...
...Washington the Premier of the country that attacked Pearl Harbor only a little more than a decade ago was given the warmest of welcomes. He addressed the National Press Club, and went to the White House for a conference and a pleasant lunch with President Eisenhower. When Yoshida arrived on Capitol Hill, the Senate gave him a standing ovation. "A great friend of the U.S. in the cause of freedom," said Vice President Nixon in his speech of welcome...
...Pentagon Yoshida encountered the only lapse in the social success of his visit. After a talk with Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, his party could find no trace of their guide, Vice Admiral Arthur Davis. A sailor who happened to be passing by volunteered to guide them to the office of Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Back in Manhattan for the second time this autumn, Japan's peppery Premier Shigeru Yoshida, taking time off from the rough and tumble of Japanese politics to make a good-will tour, hurried to the Waldorf-Astoria suite of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he had not seen since the general was relieved of his Far Eastern command job in 1951. Before retiring for a private, hour-long chat, the two posed beamingly for photographers, whom MacArthur told to caption their pictures: "Two old friends." This week Yoshida's plans called for a mission to Washington, where...