Word: militarist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clad in a rumpled suit and a grubby mackintosh, stocky, tousle-haired Theodo: Blank, who is West Germany's defense boss, looks nothing like the traditional great-coated, heel-clicking Prussian militarist. As secretary of the Miners' Union, he once told an Allied general: "I know you generals. You're the biggest trade union in the world, and if I had my way I wouldn't let anybody who served in the old German army back...
...that Eisenhower, if elected, would follow the present administration's foreign policy. Questioning Ike's status as a Republican, Brown stated that if the General were to be elected his foreign policy would be so bi-partisan that it would destroy the two party system and bring about a militarist state...
...Communists finally got their party line straightened out. After first hailing MacArthur's firing as "good riddance" of an "arrogant militarist," they discovered that Moscow wanted them to concentrate more on smearing Harry Truman for keeping the Korean war going. Secretary General Eugene Dennis, now out on $30,000 appeal bail as one of the eleven convicted Communist conspirators, issued a cliché-packed manifesto to set the comrades right...
...State Department hopes that Guatemala, under President Arbenz, will turn from Arévalo's leftist path. A property-holder as well as a militarist, he has repeatedly told fellow planters: "Don't worry, I'm not going to share my coffee fincas with anybody...
Died. General Ma Chan-shan, 65, onetime Chinese war hero; in Peking. Little, shaven-polled General Ma was both an illiterate, sharpshooting militarist (who bragged that he could shoot birds from a galloping horse) and a man of cultivated tastes (he fancied Mongolian silks and had staffmen read poetry aloud to him). Against Japan's march on Manchuria in 1931, he led the only serious resistance in North China to the invaders, then sold out and was briefly a puppet ruler...