Word: bunkerism
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...period, here offers a fictional study of a German family falling apart after a half-decade or more of peace and growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker family." This is a snide reference to the family's having lived 4½ years in a bunker (bomb shelter) under the Cologne Cathedral...
...lure of easy money, has turned Hank into a small-time mobster. He wields a mean cosh in a gang that includes sister Katie and two of his brothers. On one night's prowl he kills an old caretaker. From that moment on, the life of the bunker family disintegrates with melodramatic velocity...
...Bunker added that the firing of MacArthur was done for unscrupulous political reasons. "For just such reasons," he said, "MacArthur was not allowed to win the war in Korea when he could have. I would further say that everyone who was killed in the Korean conflict from January, 1951 on, was outrightly murdered by the State Department," he added...
...MacArthur had not been fired and if he had been allowed to pursue the Korean war as he had wished to, Bunker felt that we would have driven the Reds completely out of Korea, the Communists would then not have been able to win in Indo-China, Mao Tse Sung's government would have fallen, and the Chinese Nationalists would have been able to return to their homeland...
...Bunker also accused Truman of lying at the Wake Island Conference. "I was there," he said, "and I heard him tell everyone that he and General MacArthur agreed on the defense of Formosa. Two days later he told a news conference that he totally disagreed with MacArthur on the question of that island. What else is this...