Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National constitutions, like spiritual convictions, should well from within. Whatever else Japan's first democratic constitution may be-it was hailed at the time as a model charter of human rights-it is not Japanese. Written in English at the command of General Douglas MacArthur, translated into Japanese and imposed upon a defeated nation soon after its surrender, it has long chafed Japanese pride. "Constitution Day," says Education Minister Ichiro Kiyose, "is not a day of glory but one of national humiliation." Kiyose was defense counsel at the war crimes trial of Militarist Prime Minister Hideki Tojo...
...both Annapolis and West Point the time had come for change of command. The academies' new superintendents: CJ Rear Admiral William R. Smedburg III, 53, commanding officer of the U.S.S. Iowa during the Korean war, since 1953 director of military and political affairs in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations...
...Major General Garrison H. Davidson, 51, onetime (1933-38) West Point football coach, since 1954 commandant of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...
Clifton Webb sheds every trace of his Mr. Belvedere mannerisms to give a terse performance as Montagu, the intelligence officer who has more trouble selling his own high command than he does in hoodwinking the Germans. His toughest job is finding a proper body: that of a man of military age who has just died of pneumonia-so there will be enough fluid in the lungs to fool a Spanish prosector into believing the man has drowned. So long as the film remains a documentary, its detail is fascinating, whether it is the slow building of a personality and past...
...economy that are seldom part of a young writer's equipment. He knows and conveys the love that a soldier has for his weapon; he also knows, as many writers do not, that men can get to love an outfit and even war itself for the loyalties they command. Stanley's last act may seem too sensitive and sacrificial for so experienced a combat hand, but the real army does have its Stanleys. Your Own Beloved Sons is a modest book written toward modest goals, but with it Author Anderson has won his writer's battle...