Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that my book, The Case Against the Admirals, was ghostwritten for an Air Force general who disowned it . . . The book was written for my signature alone; it was checked to the complete satisfaction of the publishers; and it was published as a contribution to the fight for unification...
...myself a trustee for the community." He was 32 and the father of three boys when war began. He turned down a Navy commission, joined the Army as an officer candidate, served nearly a year as an enlisted man. Though he eventually saw service overseas in G-2 of General Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group, he considers his Army career "utterly undistinguished...
...General Douglas MacArthur usually sloughs off Soviet gibes at his occupation policies with silent, five-starred disdain. Last week he broke with custom, made a sharp reply to the latest official Russian blast against him-a letter from Lieut. General Kuzma N. Derevyanko, Soviet member of the Allied Council for Japan...
...General Derevyanko's letter] talk of greater liberality for Japanese workers and the Soviet practice of labor exploitation is a shocking demonstration of inconsistent demagoguery." The letter, MacArthur thundered, was designed to incite Japan's irresponsible and unruly "minority elements" against the country's duly constituted government and "to screen the Soviet's unconscionable failure to abide by the Potsdam commitments in the return of 400,000 Japanese citizens, long held in bondage, to their homeland...
Fifteen years after he had married Ellen, Jack McCloy, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, heard Lieut. General Courtney Hodges explain that he was about to shell Rothenburg. McCloy had visited Rothenburg and he remembered it -the narrow cobbled streets within the wall, the Gothic spires, the Renaissance houses. "Do you have to destroy Rothenburg?" he pleaded. "Maybe not," said Hodges. "Maybe the town can be induced to surrender." Negotiations were begun. Next day Rothenburg surrendered, and in 1948, out of gratitude, it made Jack McCloy an honorary citizen...