Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain, military and political leaders are openly discussing drastic readjustments in the armed forces based on the new weaponry, e.g., possible abolition of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command as the day of missiles draws closer (see FOREIGN NEWS). In the U.S. a whiff of a plan formulated by Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs to cut the U.S. armed forces by 800,000 men over the next four years caused a press uproar last fortnight (TIME, July 23). In the absence of open Pentagon discussion, U.S. moves in Britain's direction were best visible last week...
...Defense Department announced that effective next July the U.S. Far East Command, in Tokyo since General Douglas MacArthur's day, will be absorbed by the Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Felix Stump, based in the Hawaiian Islands...
...Dwight Eisenhower, Defense Secretary Wilson and Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-firmly believe that the next big war, if it comes, will be an atomic-airpower onslaught. Consequently in planning future U.S. military policy, they put heavy stress on ready deterrent forces -the Strategic Air Command, atom-armed Navy carriers and submarines, guided missiles...
...plays the guitar as an entertainer in European nightclubs. In London. Harrison moves confidently at any level of society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats. But he was always restless there. "I'm not really a country man in the hearty sense," he admits. He has a nervous habit...
...have raised storms of controversy. Last week one autonomous subsidiary, the Fund for the Republic, was locked in battle with a congressional committee because of its wobbly approach to the problem of Communism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ignoring its offspring's noisy troubles, the foundation quietly beefed up its command, picked a new president to succeed able Lawyer H. Rowan Gaither Jr., who continues only as the foundation's board chairman. The foundation's new boss: Henry Townley Heald, president of New York University...