Word: antimilitarist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Murayama also gave Asahi such a liberal and antimilitarist tone that nationalist gangsters beat him and bombed his house and, in 1936, soldiers with bayonets invaded Asahi's modernistic seven-story Tokyo offices and assaulted some of his successors. In World War II, the militarists "purged" Asahi, but the interlopers were ousted after Japan's surrender...
Later the eavesdropper took his story to a social club, a society of "wise elder" antimilitarist shopkeepers. They told a geisha girl, who told a Japanese employe of the Military Government, who told U.S. Army Lieut. Edward V. Neilsen; the laborer said he thought Jap officers had murdered his five or six companions because they "knew too much...
...life filled with paradox. Winston Churchill, who writes some of the finest historical prose of his time, never went to college. The future Chancellor of the Exchequer had a hard time with simple arithmetic. Son of an antimilitarist, Winston rushed enthusiastically into the Army. As a war correspondent on almost perpetual furlough from his regiment, he was in the thick of fierce fighting on three continents...
...System owes much of its precision and detail to onetime (World War I) Draft Administrator Hugh S. Johnson (who is not bashful about taking due credit in his daily column). Its present spark plug is tawny-haired, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel Lewis Elaine Hershey. A descendant of antimilitarist Mennonites who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1709, Lieut. Colonel Hershey has specialized on Army conscription plans since 1926. His technical superior on the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee is the Navy's Lieut. Commander Benjamin Stacey Killmaster. But the Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave...
...weapon comes in cans: propaganda films for the motion-picture screens of South America. So far the Nazis have had no smash hits in their movie Kampf. They have limited their efforts mainly to trying to keep from impressionable Latin Americans such pictures as anti-German Nurse Edith Cavell, antimilitarist All Quiet on the Western Front. Last week the German defense changed to offense. From Buenos Aires came reports that Agfa Argentina* had taken over the Argentine S. I. D. E. company, was leasing new studios, preparing to produce and distribute films in Latin America...