Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer who will take his place as chief of the U.S. (and United Nations) Far East Command is General Lyman Lemnitzer, 55, who had followed Taylor as ground forces commander in the Far East. Lemnitzer learned parachuting at the age of 50, when he took command of the 11th Airborne Division. He was born in Honesdale, Pa., graduated from West Point in 1920. His most publicized wartime experience occurred when he and General Mark Clark waded ashore before the invasion of North Africa. When Clark lost his pants, Lemnitzer lent him his. More important and much less well known...
...counter this activity, the Soviet Union and the seven satellite Communist governments (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania and East Germany) joined in a defense pact, and agreed to a combined military command. The supreme commander: Russia's Marshal Konev, 57, Russia's No. 3 military leader, the man who presided over the trial that ordered Beria shot...
...eight-power pact merely gives paper reality to the coalition of 80 satellite army divisions that already exists. Command will continue to be in Moscow, the top brass will still be Russian, and the troops will still be of as dubious loyalty as before. But by making a show of erecting an overall organization, Bulganin could also promise to demolish it. "The treaty will become invalid," he said, when "a European system of collective security is established." How can collective security be established...
...Peking, protesting, claimed that the Sabres had flown over Chinese islands. The U.N. command lodged a counterprotest at Panmunjom: "Again, you are officially warned that if aircraft of our side are attacked, they will defend themselves...
Dame Edith Sitwell has declared that she was so impressed by this royal command that for many years after, when told by a pulmonary physician to "say 99," the best she could bleat...