Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee carefully outlined the history of the Zwicker incident. In New York last February, McCarthy called General Zwicker to testify about the case of Major Irving Peress, the drafted dentist who was promoted and finally given an honorable discharge, although he had refused to sign loyalty forms. Zwicker, commander of the separation center where Peress was discharged, pointed out that a presidential directive prohibited him from revealing some details of such an Army loyalty case. At that, McCarthy became furious, roared that Zwicker should "be removed from any command," was "not fit to wear that uniform," and was "a Fifth...
Threat from Within. Rarely would a politician so intent on staying in power dare to leave home at a time when so much was being done to boot him out of command. Though most of the noise was coming from the extreme left and right, the real threat lay among men of Yoshida's own conservative stripe. Men like Ichiro Hatoyama of Yoshida's own Liberal Party, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the rival and equally conservative Progressives, were talking last week of forming a conservative coalition during Yoshida's absence, to force...
...known) into his Cabinet. On the other side, he and the anti-French nationalists around him distrusted handsome young (39) General Hinh. who was educated in France, married a French girl, was a lieutenant colonel in the regular French air force before (in 1952) he got the Vietnamese high command...
...leave Saigon on the Air France plane next day for Paris on "six months' leave." Enclosed was a ticket. Defiantly, Hinh called the airline, told the clerk to cancel the reservation. To Diem he explained : "There is no one here to whom I could transfer my command...
...Virginia, Governor Thomas B. Stanley once again announced: "I shall use every legal means at my command to preserve segregated public schools...