Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the President in Washington, and over the Allied world, a great debate raged. A doughface in the Philippines yelled: "Let 'em keep their Emperor-I'll throw in a pair of pants!" Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, who had said that he would like to hang Hirohito and ride his white horse through ruined Tokyo, bellowed "No!" when asked if he had changed his opinion. Senators divided-"Execute him . . . Keep him." Suddenly, the Imperial issue was the issue of the Pacific peace. Upon it, the life or death of many men was about to turn...
...Land-based Army & Navy planes made their first coordinated attack with the flyers of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet, capping a week of unprecedented assault on the remnant of what was once the Imperial Japanese Navy. Among the Japanese casualties: the battleships Haruna (and no mistake, this time), Hyuga, Na gato...
...military man now predicted an immediate surrender by Japan: Admiral William F. Halsey's ill-considered 1943 forecast-"Victory This Year"-was not forgotten. But an astonishing number of military men last week joined in a propaganda barrage designed to bring about an early surrender...
...This is "the beginning of the final plunge into the heart of the Empire. . . . If the Nips do not know they are a doomed nation, then they are stupider than I think they are."-Admiral Halsey...
Admiral William F. Halsey, who had already been promised a saddle for his projected ride on Hirohito's white horse (TIME, July 2), heard that a pair of handmade spurs were in the offing. Vernon L. Fertig, Machinist's Mate 3/C, had been working on the spurs for more than four months, wrote wistfully from the Aleutians: "I'd like to be there to saddle the horse...