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...meetings, parades, plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists in Korea...
More than 90% of Japan's 44 million voters turned out for municipal elections last week, chose approximately 7,000 mayors and 179,000 city and village assemblymen. Candidates backing Premier Shigeru Yoshida's conservative Democratic Liberal Party got 80% of the votes, Socialists 15%, other parties and independents 4½%. The Communist vote: less than half...
Dulles warned the Japanese that they would be expected to provide a considerable part of their own protection. Yoshida replied: "We realize fully our responsibility to protect ourselves and to defend our land...
...Yoshida answered: "We have the definite and heartwarming assurance of American determination ... to give Japan a just and equitable peace...
Dulles invited the Japanese to consider "the maintenance of United States armed forces in and about Japan" after the treaty, until the Japanese could undertake their own defense. Said Yoshida: "The government and majority of the Japanese people welcome the invitation heartily and with...