Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mickelson text scorned the Air Force, derided the concept of airpower. Said the Army's General Mickelson, echoing a favorite line of the Army's General Gavin: "The Army points the way for America to shed herself of any stigma of the theory of mass destruction of civilian populations...
Five months ago. when Nikita Khrushchev was engaged in mortal political battle with Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich, it was Marshal Georgy Zhukov who came to Khrushchev's rescue in a crucial session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Angered by this intervention, a civilian member of the committee, so the story goes, hotly demanded of Zhukov: "Have you brought your tanks with you?" Replied Zhukov: "If tanks are needed, I will lead them...
...Beva.i's Tribune. Tall, shrewd, Cambridge-trained Sir Hugh has served in posts ranging from Nigeria (where a terrorist slashed his jacket in an assassination attempt) to Palestine (where both Arabs and Jews considered him a friend). He is favorably remembered in Cyprus as a World War II civilian official who was liked by both Greeks and Turks. In his six years in Jamaica, he has been a key figure in the island's move toward independence within the Caribbean Federation. Though as a diplomat he eschews politics, he is a close personal friend of Labor Party Leader...
...accused marines hired a civilian lawyer, protested they had only been doing their duty and that soft Navy standards were the cause of the ruckus. Said tough Sergeant Robert J. Barbuti, 23, a brig warden charged with 82 counts of maltreatment: "Those guys were in the brig for beating up Japanese women, taking dope, larceny and that kind of thing. They were undisciplined, and we were only enforcing discipline." Then he added defensively: "I only did what I was trained by the Corps to do. If I am guilty then the whole Corps is guilty...
...carriers, on camels and afoot-swooping down on a gunrunning caravan in the desert, raiding a burned-out farm settlement for hiding rebels (they found one suspect), seizing a cache of bombs in a raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European residents who built up Algeria, and their determination to defend their homes even by installing pillboxes. From Manhattan, Commentator Eric Sevareid rounded up the issues, viewed them...