Word: kobes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Today, the new diplomatic face the U.S. presents to foreign capitals is one Americans can be proud of. In the past six years, the U.S. has completed 18 new embassies, 14 new consulates from Accra to Caracas to Kobe. As a result of a bold decision made in 1954, they are some of the handsomest, most original modern structures anywhere...
Died. Toyohiko Kagawa, 72, Japan's foremost Christian social worker, the son of a nobleman and his concubine, who was converted to Christianity at 15, went to live in the harrowing slums of Kobe where he contracted both tuberculosis and trachoma helping the poor; of a heart ailment; in Tokyo. Kagawa organized labor unions and cooperatives the length and breadth of Japan, bitterly denounced his government for attacking China, though he later supported the war against the U.S. He continued his good works among Japan's masses after the war in spite of opposition from the Communists...