Word: repayed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...chamberlains like his father. Thereupon the seven chamberlains urged postponement of Akihito's trip until well after President Eisenhower's visit to Japan in June, "to prevent members of the imperial family being used as a political instrument." Besides, they said, the Crown Prince should first repay visits from Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Iran's Shah. Last week, blandly ignoring earlier pledges of a U.S. trip in May, the inflexible chamberlains declared that "the Imperial Household Board will work out its own plans for an autumn overseas tour" by Akihito, "independent of any political considerations...