Eisenhower’s Reaction
(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. This is how President Eisenhower —inspecting troops before an enthusiastic crowd of a million in Manila—got the news that his Tokyo visit had been cancelled While he walked down the lines of troops, a news agency report from Tokyo was rushed to his press secretary, Mr James Hagerty. Contact was quickly established with Tokyo and the worst was confirmed. When the President, still smiling and waving, returned to the reviewing stand, he was told. His reaction was the use of a typical Army expletive. “Any lip readers among the onlookers must have received a slight shock.” the “Daily Express” reported. “His smile vanished and was replaced by a beetling scowl.”
He had been determined to go through with his Tokyo visit, and it had never' been envisaged that the initiative in cancelling it would come from Tokyo,
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29234, 18 June 1960, Page 13
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