Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Stalin, fit and smiling, climbed atop Lenin's tomb to receive the thundering cheers of Muscovites. Overhead, more than 250 jet planes, including some impressive new models vaunted as the fastest in the world, whooshed past in impeccable formation. In the lead plane was Major General Vasily J. Stalin, the Generalissimo...
Groups of husky British MPs rushed to the locks in armored cars. After four days of discussion between a Russian general and a British brigadier, the Russians agreed not to interfere any more. For the Russian retreat the Communist press had an odd explanation. The Russians, it solemnly assured its readers, had staged the affair in order to re-establish diplomatic contact with the Western Powers...
...answer. But the be ginning of an answer seemed to be in the making. The man who had formulated it, grandiosely and still vaguely, was an American with the face of an aging movie idol, the vision of a statesman and the stature of a great fighter. He was General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) and (in the words of the Japanese), Yankee Emperor of Nippon...
Between conferences with staff officers, intelligence briefing on the disastrous China situation and talks with Japanese politicians, General MacArthur occasionally finds time to receive a visitor from the States. On these occasions, MacArthur speaks with sweeping eloquence about the great U.S. experiment in Japan. The gist of his discourse...
When MacArthur is criticized for SCAP's failure to improve Japan's tragic economic plight, the general replies that he was rigidly bound by the directive, which expressed the will of the people of the U.S. Critics of SCAP, looking at Japan's slow recovery, insist the reply is only partially valid. MacArthur, they argue, had enough stature to go to bat in Washington against any directive he considered wrong...