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Sagoya and his bullyboys were by no means the only Japanese who were disturbed by Hatoyama's new-found willingness to agree to an interim peace settlement that would not commit Russia to return to Japan the southern Kuril islands of Etorofu and Kunashiri. Earlier, the powerful businessmen who finance Hatoyama's Liberal-Democratic Party demanded that the Premier abandon the Moscow trip unless the Russians could be persuaded to give advance assurances that possession of Etorofu and Kunashiri would "continue to be the subject of negotiations" even after a peace settlement. To pacify the businessmen, the Hatoyama...
...Book. In Trapani, Sicily, after he tried to commit suicide and missed, Giuseppe Cavallo was jailed, told it is illegal to shoot oneself without a firearms permit...
...have to make the tanks and heavy guns have all the peacetime business they can use, and firms like Krupp want no part of the risk and none of the stigma of becoming munitions makers again. Furthermore, weapons are in a transitional stage, and Germans do not want to commit themselves to large-scale production until the weapons of the future have taken clear shape...
That was as far as the President would go to dictate the choice of his possible successor. Pressed to commit himself to Nixon-or to comment on other well-qualified Republicans-Ike dug his heels in. Said he firmly: "I have said that I would not express a preference. I have . . . said [Nixon] is perfectly acceptable to me, as he was in 1952. But I am not going beyond that." Beyond that he hardly needed...
These words may become part of both the Republican and Democratic platforms if a bipartisan appeal from "The Commit tee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations" is successful. A letter sent to the organiza tion's members explains the drive: "If our allies are permitted to miscalculate, and vote admission of Red China to the U.N., such action could lead to the gravest con sequences . . . The conventions can prove to the world the universality and solid ity of the American people's opposition through the inclusion of identical planks...