Word: militarist
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...Japanese, they had already warned teachers against continuing nationalist and militarist indoctrination. No more than Westminster could they continue to ignore a world that changed and moved, and yearned to achieve unity while cherishing variety...
Guns & Grass. Was this an irrevocable decision or tactical bluster? Apparently the reported unofficial Japanese drive for a negotiated peace, launched about two months ago, had stalled against U.S. insistence on unconditional surrender. Apparently the militarist rulers of Japan, though they might be willing to part with most of their conquests in Asia, would not accept a surrender that meant their end. Apparently Premier Suzuki's words spelled out their determination to gird the nation for a hara-kiri resistance...
Forty-eight hours after receiving the imperial commission, Premier Baron Suzuki announced his Government. By militarist standards, it was the weakest of Japan's wartime cabinets. Of 14 cabinet posts, the Army held one, the Navy four, civil service and big business nine. Several of the new Ministers were violently anti-American...
...Yalta the Big Three agreed that militarist Germany must not rise again, and designed machinery to do the job. But there was little indication that Yalta faced the long term questions: Who will replace liquidated war criminals who have been Central Europe's rulers? Who will own and manage the economy of Europe? What idea will replace that of the Nazis...
...after the war. But he had always conditioned that promise on the early overthrow of Hitler and an early surrender. Now Stalin said with Churchill and Roosevelt : "We are determined to disarm and disband all German armed forces; break up for all time the German General Staff ... remove all ... militarist influences." Political and economic disarmament would be equally complete and rigorous: "....Eliminate or control all German industry that could be used for military production . . . wipe out the Nazi party, Nazi laws, organizations and institutions. . . . It is not our purpose to destroy the people of Germany. But only when Naziism...