Word: militarist
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...election of Juan Domingo Peron to the Argentine Presidency, the U.S. State Department decided that a Peronista government was intolerable to American interests. Working from this premise, Spruille Braden issued the famous Blue Book, which catalogued the Nazi leanings of the Strong Man and the wartime sins of his militarist clique. The Blue Book failed miserably to swing Argentine opinion, while at the same time it boomeranged toward its authors the old cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point to determined and long...
...unhappy in what they were doing, nearly all of them worried about the future. Almost to a man they had walked out on the Army-run Manhattan Project and its boss, paunchy Major General Leslie R. Groves, whom most of the scientists regarded as a blustering, tactless, fanatically secretive militarist...
Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, the three big Tokyo dailies, all touted the leftward trend. Former militarist editors, now wearing pinkish hues, might privately admit they were hypocrites, but they made a great show of turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing...
...elections were originally scheduled for late this month, but MacArthur's purge had disrupted party organizations and all campaign plans. At least 107 of the present Diet's Representatives (full membership: 466) were said to be ultra-nationalist or militarist, and therefore ineligible for reelection...
...free to express themselves." ¶ The number of Japanese magazines has increased from 32 to 306. ¶ Among the new radio programs: The Man on the Street, The Woman's Hour, The Voice of the People. ¶ The theater, which during the war was "solely a militarist propaganda medium," has been "given liberal themes from which new educational plays can be drawn." (Added MacArthur sadly: "'Liberal' means saying something, however little, against war or for democracy. No truly liberal scripts have appeared yet.") ¶ More than 20 political parties have begun campaigning, with no topics barred...