Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur has any subordinate who qualifies as his trusty right hand, it is Almond. At SCAP headquarters in Tokyo's Dai Ichi building, the two men were in & out of each other's offices all day long. Almond geared his working time to the late hours and seven-day routine of the Supreme Commander. He represented MacArthur at most official social functions. The Chief of Staff became one of the most ardent MacArthur disciples. He looks on his superior as the 20th Century's outstanding military genius; he will not rank MacArthur for all time, "because...
...Inchon. Before the Korean war, Almond would drive home from his Dai Ichi building office for a light lunch. Then, weather permitting, he would take his putter out for 45 minutes on a nine-hole putting course in his garden. Occasionally he and his wife slipped away for a long weekend in the mountains at Karuizawa; there he played 36 holes of golf (middle 80s) a day. He also likes ping-pong and canasta...
Harry Truman did what not even Franklin Roosevelt had had the temerity to do. He ordered Douglas MacArthur to shut up. The President's summary order arrived in Tokyo shortly after midnight Monday morning. There, in his headquarters in the Dai Ichi building, General MacArthur made the only decision he could make. He silently saluted his commander in chief across 6,769 miles of land and ocean, and shut...
...Dai's Show. Facing the Vietminh is a weak Vietnamese government without credit in the country. The chief of state and Descendant of Heaven, Emperor Bao Dai, is still a symbol commanding great respect, only some of which has been frittered away by his consistent neglect of public affairs...
...Dai's government has no social policy at all; in fact, it has no social sense. There are some emergency relief operations for the homeless, but nothing is done on a serious scale to combat the diseases (malaria, conjunctivitis, amebic dysentery) which ravage the country. There is no overall plan to help agriculture or expand education facilities...