APOLOGIES BY JAPANESE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29466, 18 March 1961, Page 4

APOLOGIES BY JAPANESE

Anti-U.S. Riots In Tokyo Japanese students who. nine months ago, were among the Tokyo rioters who prevented President Eisenhower's visit, apologised for their actions from the stage of Carnegie Hall when the Moral Rearmament play. “The Tiger.” had its New York premiere. Yoneta Iwanga. champion debater of Tokyo University, said: "On behalf of the Japanese students I want to apologise to the American nation for the division between our two countries and the serious damage to the unity of the free wqpld caused by the demonstrations we led last June.” Two nights later. Mr James C. Hagerty, President Eisenhower’s press secretary, received an apology from the Japanese students who mobbed his car at Haneda airport, Tokyo. The students made their apology after the play, and then called on Mr Hagerty to join them on the stage. “I had dinner with some of these students,” he said “They made an apology for an incident at Haneda airport some time ago. I told them that I did not want an apology because what they said tonight and what they said in the play was all the apology I. or any American, would want. "I congratulate them and I congratulate the United States. We in the free world are lucky indeed to have people of their type on outside.”