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...also a lifelong economic technician without political experience, who took the job "without joy," is less likely to stir up Cabinet debates than Pinay. His appointment was a clear sign of the way the De Gaulle government is trending. Fired up once again with his old contempt for "political games," De Gaulle was steadily cleansing his government of men with independent political strength, replacing them with technicians who are able-but technicians...
...seize the forts, and collected an indemnity of $3,000,000.-Impressed, the Choshu leaders fraternized with the Western officers, begged technical advice and sought to buy big guns like those that had destroyed their forts. Observes a present-day Japanese intellectual: "The men of Choshu are completely without sentiment. They act on the basis of logic and profit. Kishi is a typical Choshu...
After serving three years in Sugamo Prison, Kishi and 18 other "Class" A war-crime suspects" were released without trial. In jail he had read Confucius, exercised, cleaned cells and latrines, despised the craven and selfish behavior of the admirals and generals in prison with him, and thought. Kishi recalls: "I had plenty of time to strip my own soul naked and study it." He says he was "forced to the conclusion that the war had been futile from the start. I became convinced that Japan must never again be involved in war." Finally, "when I found...
...stuffed toy tiger propped up on the back seat. Finally the Speaker, in his legislative robes and wig, strode majestically into the chamber, followed by the sergeant at arms bearing the golden mace of authority. "Extraordinary," said Macmillan with pleasure. "Nigeria has come to the threshold of independence without strife or bitterness between our two peoples...
Ever since 1933, when President Robert Maynard Hutchins, disturbed at the way teacher education seemed divorced from scholarly pursuits, abolished the school of education, the University of Chicago has been without an organized teacher-training program. In 1958 the university decided it was high time to get back in business again, and last week Francis S. Chase, dean of Chicago's new graduate department of education, announced the program for the first 100 students, due to enter next September. His prospectus makes plain that on its second try, Chicago is in dead earnest about producing teachers who know their...