Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The Japs clustered about and listened to the interpreter giving them their last instructions. [There was a moment of confusion while Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland straightened out signatures on the Japanese copy of the surrender document. Colonel L. Moore Cosgrave, who signed for Canada, had written on the wrong...
A close reader of TIME since . . . '39, I've learned in the ETO three things that some of you seem to overlook: 1) Not one in ten soldiers ever sees a foxhole. 2) Damn few "give" their lives. Except in that million-in-one Kamikaze case, the average...
Things were probably not so bad as they seemed. It was the surprisingly quick surrender, rather than the U.S. concept of occupation, which led to the confusion and unease last week. The lack of completed plans and readied staffs to arrange the surrender and begin the actual occupation had nothing...
Into that brand-new city (called Dogpatch) flooded weird equipment: thousands of powerful, new-type pumps, gigantic electromagnets, innumerable other machines and instruments. Amid oceans of mud and battlefront confusion, they finally found their places. Both plants were successful, produced effective quantities of precious U-235.
"The stark reality is that Japan and the Japanese people now stand at the crossroads of life or death. In this worst national crisis in our history, all the people must strictly guard against the danger of internal split and conflict. . . . Internal confusion is no way of saving the nation...