Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October 7, General Ayub and President Iskander Mirza deposed Premier Firoz Khan Noon, abolished the constitution, suspended legislatures and political parties, declared martial law, and took over the government of Pakistan. Acting barely four months before Pakistan's first nation-wide elections were to take place, they accomplished the revolution without bloodshed or even, as General Ayub observed, "head knocking...
...dogs." More conspicuous than the lack of reform movement was the lack of an atmosphere where anyone would even take the idea of reform seriously. Fearing a "bloody revolution" from below, Mirza convinced Ayub that it was necessary to replace the inept democratic regime with a "benign martial law to assist the civil power to clean up this mess...
Grated Carrots. Behind the court-martial was a tender Army sore spot. Needled mercilessly for "wasting" the nation's young scientific brains in routine basic training, the Army high command had set up a policy of assigning draftees with some scientific education to special groups such as the Enlisted Scientific and Professional Personnel. Fresh from campuses and freer academic life, the ESPPs kicked hard against regimentation, cut sloppy military figures, took to hissing noncoms and arguing with officers...
...together. The overwhelming majority of his subjects are former Palestinians, many of them refugees, without any devotion to Hussein. Increasingly, the King has excluded the more literate but less trustworthy Palestinians from key posts in the army, depending instead upon tribal loyalties of the Bedouins in eastern Jordan. Only martial law upholds the government, only the army's loyalty sustains the throne, only U.S. aid poured in at the rate of $50 million a year keeps the economy going. Since Hussein threw out a pro-Nasser Cabinet 18 months ago, and even more so since the Iraqis murdered...
...words did not mean that German militarism is stirring again: the new General Staff college is rising in Hamburg, historically one of the least martial-minded of German cities. And the college's chief is no monocled martinet such as the late great General Hans von Seeckt, who built the Reichswehr after Versailles, but an infantryman who rose to major general's rank fighting on the Eastern Front. Yet there are signs that the postwar German attitude toward the military is changing...