UNITED NATIONS UNDER THE EAGLE'S BEAK

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• Publication Date: June 6, 1960
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of the Diet. It had been under debate fol~ ?`
ro7 days. and Kishi commanded a clear
majority. The Socialists, kno?=ing they
' would be outvoted, boycotted the session
and even barred the Speaker's way into
the chamber until police arrived. But last
week it was Kishi who was under attack in
? the press and in intellectual circles as the
"destroyer of democracy in Japan."
Right Is Wrong. Fact is that since the
~ti?ar, Japan's intellectuals have been
gripped in a sort of reverse McCarthyism;
no Japanese artist; poet, professor or
painter dares to be labeled a "righti"st."
Most are socialists, and they pride them-
selves on being "agin' the government.''
They companionably join Communists in
a bewildering array of organizations with
names like Youth and Student Struggle
Council, Committee for Freedom of Ex-
pression. I\Tational Conference for Reopen-
ing of Japan-China Relations. They pro-
vide the intellectual leadership for such
huge outfits as Nikkyoso, the 600:000-
strong teachers union ; Ze~zgak~ire~z, a na-
tion~a=ide student pressure group.; and,
most important of all, the ultra-left-wing
labor union federation called S?Iayo (3a2
million members), which has backed many
of the recent demonstrations.
Who`s Anti-American? In the biggest
of last week's Tokyo demonstrations, some
60,000 youngsters shouted; waved banners
and threw stones outside the Diet build-
ing. The Premier was trapped for eight
hours before he could slip out aback
~vay. But most participants seemed to
have only the vaguest idea of what they
were protesting. ~~ "The pact opens the path
~:~ And none, apparently, got hurt. Only reported
casualties: z3 policemen.
Moinichi Shimbun
SOCL4LIST ASANUMA
The intent: agin'.
the Diet and hold elections because of a
small minority demonstrating in the
streets of Tokyo?" he declared. "There
have been three elections since I became
Premier, and my government has Avon a
majority in all of them. Therefore; I be-
lieve Ihave amandate from the people.''
The demonstrations had been more
-anti-Kishi than anti-security pact, and at
week's end there were signs that the pub-
lic was getting tired of the Socialist dem-
onstrators. Independent newspapers, sharp-
ly hostile to the government earlier in the
oveek, were critical of Asanuma's antics at
the embassy. Snorted As?lai: "Asanuma
behaved like 1\Tikita. Khrushchev." ~'Vhen
word arrived from Washington that Pres-
ident Eisenhower was still determined to
go through with the visit to Tokyo so
long as Japan's invitation still stood, the
Premier sent reassurances that "the great-
er part of the Japanese people will ? wel-
come Eisenhower from the bottom of
their hearts."
But many true democrats, reminded of
the prewar strong-arm groups that made a
mockery of prewar parliamentary rule,
were deeply alarmed by the trend of
events. In the Diet, the opposition benches
were still empty-boycotted by Socialist
members who were now streaming home
to whip their constituents into greater re-
sistance to Kishi. Ugly days had passed
and more could come.
TOKYO DEMONSTRATORS IN FRONT OF U.S. EMBASSY
The reasons: peculiar.
to fascism;" explained one demonstrator
vaguely. Girls shouting "ITankee go home"
were shocked at the very suggestion that
they were anti-American. Americans
?=atching the demonstrations were never
molested, and one "angry" crowd politely
waited while a flustered marine guard
finally got the embassy gates locked be-
fore surging forgo=ard to hammer at the
portals. The crowds were really shouting
in support of the Communist-fueled theme
that Japan, by permitting U.S. air bases
and rocket stations on its soil, was "at-
tracting the lightning" of Russian retalia-
tion in a world conflict.
Orchestrating the demonstrations was
Socialist Party Secretary-General Inejiro
Asanuma, the burly former union organ-
izer who has been chummy with the Chi-
nese Communists ever since his Peking
trip last year. Backed by three loudspeak-
er trucks and hundreds of followers, he
strode up to the U.S. embassy and handed
Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II a truc-
ulent letter. It declared that President
Eisenhower's impending visit to Japan,
scheduled for June Iq, "will only provoke
the Japanese people, already infuriated by
the passing of the security pact." DZac-
Arthur retorted with a demand that Asa-
numa retract his widely ballyhooed state-
ments that "the U.S. is the common enemy
of China and Japan." "i\TOt the American
people," cried Asanuma. "American im-
perialism!" What was the difference? "Mr.
Asanuma was unable to make any clear
distinction," observed MacArthur in a
public statement after the meeting. As for
Asanuma's prediction that Ike's trip would
bring disturbances; MacArthur noted that
"he presumably is in a position not only
to predict but to organize disorders if he
so chooses."
Two on TV. Next day Asanuma
shooo~ed up on TV to cry for the Premier's
resignation. At his side sat Nobusuke Ki-
shi, coldly angry. "Why should I dissolve
~~ UNITED NATIONS
Under the Eagle's Beak
"A dangerous provocation. An act of
perfidy!" cried the Soviet Union's For-
eign Minister over and over, and more
than one delegate at the big horseshoe
table in the blue and gold Security Coun-
cil chamber began to yawn. Even those
disposed to deplore the U-a overflight
only chided mildly.
"VVe understand the annoyance felt by
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'The Russians grinned.
the .soviet Union," said Ecuador's Dr.
Jose Correa.
How could a light, unarmed; siligle-
engined; nonmilitary, one-man plane be
aggressive? asked U.S. Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge; blandly:
"These activities are. alas. a current
practice;" sighed France's Armand Be-
rard to the Council. "R7hat country does
not find itself implicated? Is the Soviet
Union,. which today expresses indigna
tion; beyond reproach on this score?"
Spying; he added; might be deplorable,
but there was no international law against
it. Although defeat clearly lay ahead,
deadpan Andrei Gromyko stolidly forced
a vote on his resolution to declare the
flights a "threat to world peace;" and, with
only Poland in support of him, the Coun-
cil voted him down by ~ to a.
On the Brink. Undaunted; Gromyko
lashed out at President Eisenho~ver's tele-
vision speech to the nation ~SCC NATIONAL
AFFAIRS. "A policy of dangerous provo-
cations which indeed places mankind on
the brink of war!" Gromyko cried.
The U.S.'s Henry Cabot Lodge was
ready with his o~vn rebuttal of the day's
harsh words. Reaching down for a case
beside his chair, he remarked: "~~7e11; it
so happens that I have here today a con-
crete example of Soviet espionage so that
you can see for yourself.'' Out came a
large carved wooden plaque representing
the Great Seal of the United States. In
1945 a group of Russians had presented
it to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow,
Averell Harriman; ~vho hung it over the
desk in his study. Opening it like a book,
Lodge disclosed that its hinged insides
harbored a tiny metallic cylinder with a
slender metallic antenna. Lodge explained
that it vas a "clandestine listening de-
vice"used by the Russians to listen in on
ambassadorial conversations.
Whose Play? Gromyko managed a
game smile, then recovered to retort: "I
should like to ask from what play all this
has been taken, and ?=hen that play is
going to be performed." Replied Lodge:
"It is not out of any play . . I produced
that to show the thoroughness of Soviet
espionage." it was all faintly funny, and
Basile Vitsaxis, the Greek delegate to the
U.i\T., rushed up to whisper into Lodge's
ear. "Thanks," he said. "for not men-
tioning the Trojan horse."
If the question of overflights had come
up before the U.N. Security Council in
any routine context, probably all eleven
members would have voted against them.
But when the question was posed of
indicting the U.S. alone, the U.S.'s friends
rallied aroulid. They were not going to
stand for Russia, chief disturber of the
world's peace; hypocritically trying to
embarrass the U.S. "~~lre blundered and
they know it; they think we're clumsy
and a bit silly, like a great big hairy-
chested fellow with a high voice; but
they like us;" remarked one member of
the U.S. delegation.
RUSSIA
Still the Survivor?
Among the tiny handful of men ~vho
teeter perilously at the top of the Soviet
ladder, none has shown such a talent for
survival as swarthy, saturnine First Dep-
uty Premier Anastas Mikoyan; 64. But
last week ?7estern foreign offices and intel-
ligence agencies hummed with speculation
that Mikoyan had at last lost his footing.
Watching the weather.
UPI
A'
To support their suspicions; the Krem-
linologists had to fall back, as ahvays, on
indirect and fragmentary evidence. At the
great l2ay Day parade in Red Square,
Mikoyan; for the first time since Igj7.
was not among the first five Soviet leaders
to appear on the reviewing stand. On
May 3 the Central Committee magazine
Party Li./e ran an article on "Forty Years
of Soviet Azerbaijan." D'Iikoyan, chief
architect of the Bolshevik revolution in
Azerbaijan, was not mentioned. Since
May ~ Mikoyan has not been seen in
Moscow.
A slick; self-confident Armenian; Mi-
koyan has shown less public reverence for
Khrushchev than any other second-rank
Russian leader. On one' occasion during
Khrushcht;v's 195J visit with Marshal
Tito, his Yugoslav hosts watched in open-
mouthed disbelief as the bull-like \Tikita
and the wiry Anastas whiled away a few
idle minutes scuffling about in a mock
wrestling match. For all his flipness to-
ward the boss, Mikoyan has always voted
with Khrushchev in Kremlin disputes, has
been one of the strongest advocates inside
Russia's ruling Presidium of Khrushchev's
policy of easier relations with the ~~lJest.
In fact, Mikoyan has been its most con-
spicuous salesman in the 1STest. He served
as Khrushchev's advance man in the U.S.,
peddled the soft line in Cuba and Iraq.
If Mikoyan was slated for the stage-
=~ The concealed device was a sophisticated un-
powered, metallic reflector far electronic beams
focused from outside, was discovered in a routine
check of Ambassador George Kennvi's office in
r95s. Picking up Kennan's voice Uy accident on
their electronic gear, the U.S. security agent
searched for hours before they traced the signal
to the tiny metal cup concealed in the beak of
Lhe eagle on the crest. No one could say how
many months-or years--if had been in opera-
tion. Ilut old \loscow hands recalled that the
seal had frequently been sent out to Russian
workmen for repair or cleaning. They also re-
called wryly that Secretary of State George \1ar-
sha11 slept within a few feet of the thing in X947,
when he used kennan's study as a bedroom dur-
ing the Foreign \4inisters' Conference. \3ore
than roo such gadgets have been discovered-in
U.S. foreign missions in a decade, reported the
security men, admitting: "Their equipment is
just as good as ours. They are up with the state
of the art."
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