Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over His Head. The week began with a call on new neighbors across Lafayette Square from the White House: the A.F.L.-C.I.O. high command, dedicating an eight-story headquarters at 815 Sixteenth Street. The next day Ike wrote a godspeed message to departing Indonesian President Sukarno, hoped Sukarno "found what you sought in America as a state of mind and as the center of an idea." That afternoon he squeezed in 18 holes of golf at Burning Tree Country Club, that evening joined ten congressional leaders around the Cabinet table for a solemn 80-minute discussion on the foreign...
Irked by this state of affairs, the Swiss and Swedes privately suggested dissolution of the inspection commission. At last the U.N. command agreed. Early one morning last week, 16 neutral inspection members stationed in South Korea's three main ports of entry-Kunsan, Inchon and Pusan-were told to pack up their belongings. Without incident, two transport planes and 18 helicopters flew them to the demilitarized zone at Panmunjom. The U.N. will continue to report South Korean military imports to the commission, but jubilant South Koreans, who regard the Czech and Polish inspectors as spies, were happy...
...Isaac Rojas, itched to inflict a lesson in hot lead on the endlessly plotting Peronista party chiefs, labor leaders and pro-Perón officers cashiered by the revolutionary government. As luck would have it, when the plot popped this week, hard-boiled Vice President Rojas was in top command of the armed forces while amiable President Pedro Aramburu was returning by river minesweeper from an interior tour. The uprising was relentlessly crushed...
Next day he took it back. The bishop's statement "was intended as an exhortation, not as a command," said a spokesman. But the secular press saw its chance, and pounced: "How smug," exploded the Daily Mirror, "and how stupid." Editorialized the Daily Sketch: "Once again the Church of England has spoken with two voices." And the Evening Standard: "The new Bishop of London has made an unfortunate start in his high and important office." The" established Church of England quietly buttoned up its gaiters and waited for things to quiet down...
Perhaps the most moving of all the letters are those of men in responsible command positions in the German army, who did what they did with full knowledge of the consequences-not only in terms of traditional patriotism but to the safety of their families. Wrote Heinrich, Count von Lehndorff-Steinort, to his wife, on the eve of his "condemnation and execution" (he was involved in the July 20 plot...