Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearest example of the new trend was the size of Georges Bidault's brand-new Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...
Stolidly, in the face of the President's confidence, he asked to be allowed to play safe, to withdraw the fleet from Pearl Harbor, base it on the Pacific Coast, and use it to defend the Western Hemisphere...
...Staff Marshall. Three flying generals, with four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until V-J day added 10% "sea pay" to his base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more for occasional flying. Most other elderly generals, admirals, colonels and four-stripe captains legally stepped up their take-home pay by sitting in a copilot's seat...
...southern Indo-China, dominated by the great harbor and naval base of Saigon, French troops mopped up Viet Nam guerrillas. Like the Chinese troops, the British were technically present to disarm the Japanese, were helping the French. In a skirmish at Bienhoa, a rail town some 20 miles northeast of Saigon, two British Indian soldiers were killed...
...Dominion Government was caught off base; it was angry and indignant at the sudden dropping of meat rationing in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King hastened over to tell the House of Commons his decision: the U.S. could end meat rationing if it pleased, Canada would...