Word: militarist
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...ardent hobbies pursued by Thomas Ernest Hulme, a brilliant young English intellectual who seemed to take all knowledge for his hobby. When a burst of shellfire killed Hulme on the Western Front in 1917, he was just 34, and had been successively a poet, philosopher, self-proclaimed political reactionary, militarist, and pet lion of his own literary salon. A huge, indolent man of lightning intelligence and wit who combined a Prussian officer's bearing with a contagious charm, Hulme was perhaps best described by his sculptor friend Jacob Epstein when he wrote: "He was capable of kicking a theory...
...made him appear a Communist sympathizer, Pauling wrote to the paper: "Your very poor article about me has strengthened my opinion that the Times is rapidly becoming an unreliable newspaper." Appearing at Johns Hopkins University for a speech, Pauling called the Senate subcommittee's Tom Dodd a "militarist...
...pact with Hitler, Germany might never have dared start World War II. As it was, both France and Russia were littered with "unexploded bombs and shells . . . abandoned by the Hitlerians." Should German militarism rise again, France would be the first to be threatened, for "not even a mad German militarist would risk war with us." When he had finished his ten-minute airport invitation to France to join a new alliance with him, he explained to General de Gaulle: "I too can speak without a text-that will come...
...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...