Word: militarist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ichiro Hatoyama, 76, onetime (1954-56) Prime Minister of Japan; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. A peppery parliamentarian who in earlier days often got into fist fights in the Diet, Hatoyama would have become Premier in 1946 had he not been purged by Douglas MacArthur for his prewar militarist sympathies. He was depurged in 1951. As Prime Minister, he visited Moscow in 1956, formally ended the official state of Russo-Japanese hostility that had lingered on from World War II, opened the way for Japan's membership...
...Carl Maria Stroheim von Nordenwall came to the U.S. in 1909, drifted to Hollywood (1912) and, with his Prussian strut, cropped head and monocle, lodged firmly in the public mind (viz. D. W. Griffith's Hearts of the World) during World War I as a cruel, arrogant German militarist. He once quipped that no one had any idea then of what a German officer looked like, but "ever since all German officers have apparently been trying to look like...
...Douglas MacArthur, translated into Japanese and imposed upon a defeated nation soon after its surrender, it has long chafed Japanese pride. "Constitution Day," says Education Minister Ichiro Kiyose, "is not a day of glory but one of national humiliation." Kiyose was defense counsel at the war crimes trial of Militarist Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (who was hanged...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, no militarist, heard himself accused in Bonn last week of soliciting "a blank check for a pact between militarism and bureaucracy." The words were those of Opposition Leader Erich Ollenhauer, but they reflected the mood of the entire Bundestag...
...floundering in confusion. The Hungarian press struck out of the Belgrade communiqué the clause referring to the several roads of Communism, printed it next day only on direct Russian orders. The Communist Poles were aghast at the invitation to Adenauer (formerly referred to by the Russians as "Hitlerite militarist adventurer...