Word: hotheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The "young officers" of the hotheaded Kwantung Army clique thought of him as an old dodderer, a "moderate," an obstacle to the quick construction of Dai Nippon (Great Japan). One February night in 1936 they called at his house. The Grand Chamberlain had just come through Tokyo's snowy...
"We must restrain ourselves and our hotheaded brothers today. If we do not, there will be no union after the war. Restrictive legislation, worse than anything on the books, will be enacted."
Less hotheaded Catholics hoped that Monsignor Sheen had not helped the Kremlin drive a wedge.
To the trained ear of the British Foreign Office, the charge was a challenge. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden set to work to make sure that hotheaded Poles gave a soft answer to Red wrath. In his endeavor he had the aid of reasonable, democratic Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk and of a...
Hertzog's hotheaded career carried him to the South African heights. He was Prime Minister for 18 years before World War II. But the day after Britain declared war, the old Hertzog-Smuts battle began again in the House of Assembly. Smuts pleaded, "Stand by Britain." Hertzog blundered. He...