Word: antimilitarists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Olaf Iversen, 57, German newspaperman and cartoonist who in 1954 revived the far-famed, grimly satiric magazine Simplicissimus, filled it with jibes at both East and West, and biting antimilitarist attacks in keeping with the anti-Prussian tradition of the original Simplicissimus (founded in 1896); in Munich...
...Harry Truman ever has the leisure to extend his historical research beyond the details of history to the broad spirit and meaning of it, he might find that the U.S. has always been and is now strongly antimilitarist, in the sense that it is against a military state. This has never been taken to mean that military men are barred or tainted as candidates for political office. Americans are aware of defects in "the military mind" just as they are of "the legal mind" and "the political mind." What matters is the individual, not his profession. Nobody really holds...
...chief stock in trade is still his shrewd knack for compromise. Rather than have the workers grow restive, Adenauer, the conservative Christian-Democrat, has given trade unions more responsibility than they ever had in Germany. In order to keep former soldiers from deserting to the radical Right, Adenauer the antimilitarist courteously receives influential former generals...