Word: militarist
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...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...
Tanaka: "I think Admiral Togo† is the greatest man in Japanese history. Togo was an honest nationalist, which is not the same thing as a militarist. I also respect Admiral Yamamoto [who planned and carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor], not as a militarist but as an excellent human being. I had a copy of his biography, but when we surrendered I burned...
...brief speeches the scientists promised not to repeat the "retreat from reason" that was forced upon them during Japan's militarist regime. They pledged themselves to work for world peace. Then they split into committees and got down to their main business of advising the government on Japan's scientific problems. Their charter makes them only an advisory group, but they feel that they have the prestige to give their advice authority. Besides, they have the conviction that they, the scientists of defeated Japan, are pioneering for the entire world...