Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western powers and its own people have decided, it would sooner or later have to be armed, and want to be armed. It would be up to the Western powers and to Germany's own democrats to keep a German army within reasonable bounds and under civilian control; if they could not accomplish that, they would not be able to accomplish very much else in Germany...
There was another, more subtle factor. Under Chairman Lilienthal's stewardship, the U.S. atomic program had successfully made the transition from military to civilian control. Production and morale were up; personnel turnover had been reduced; scientific research had taken big strides (see SCIENCE). But with Russian possession of the bomb, new readjustments were bound to come. It was probably time for congressional re-evaluation of the Atomic Energy (McMahon) Act of 1946, for redefining problems of secrecy and military security, for clarifying the checks & balances on AEC-the "advisory" scientists, the military liaison officers, the joint congressional "watchdog" committee...
...bottom. The Navy decided on not one history, but two. One was to be a popular narrative told largely in the words of the men and officers who did the fighting. Tapped for the job by Navy Secretary Knox in 1943 was Captain Walter Karig, U.S.N.R., in civilian life a newsman and prolific writer of children's books. The other was planned as a formal history based on all available information-"unofficial" to allow for criticism but backed to the hilt by all the resources o.f Navy documents and officialdom. The man who proposed the idea to F.D.R. early...
...argued that Airman Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...almost all of CATC's American personnel stood by the Nationalists. Major General Claire Chennault, who runs Civil Air Transport, third civilian airline in Nationalist China, put his planes on 24-hour service, offered jobs to CNAC and CATC men of "proven loyalty." "I don't want anything to do with that [Communist] outfit," said one flyer. Another showed U.S. newsmen a cable signed "Mother" and begging: "Don't fly for other party. Please come home...