Word: militaristic
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...note strayed from the usual diplomatic sobriety to needle Moscow with a barbed guide to Soviet terminology: "A 'revanchist' seems to be anyone who believes in self-determination for the German people; a 'militarist' seems to be one who believes in defending his home against the threat created by the large forces in East Germany; a 'spy' would seem to be anyone who is curious about what goes on in the world; a 'diversionist' may be anyone who opposes Soviet views; a 'subversive' appears to be anyone who favors freedom...
Chief culprits, according to the Russians, were France and its Sahara atomic-bomb blasts (four scrawny shots, two of which were near fizzles), as well as "Adenauer and the forces that pursue a course of turning West Germany into a militarist state, armed to the teeth...
...They are now, I suspect, even more the prisoners of the hardware crowd than before. Whether they join up explicitly or not scarcely matters. What we are likely to have from now (and to some extent have had already or the Castro affair would not have happened) is a militarist and reactionary government that covers its fundamental policies with liberal rhetoric and minor concessions to numerically important interest groups (Negroes, organized labor...
...that was contrary to the more traditional and subtle Japanese way of doing things. Advertising implied competition, and the monopoly-minded Japanese were more accustomed to making private arrangements with competitors. With most of Japan's production in the hands of a few big business combines and the militarist government favoring heavy industry over consumer goods, there was no room for well-planned, creative ad campaigns. An adman's chief function was to sell space in newspapers and magazines; often he was greeted by signs that warned: "Peddlers and advertising men, keep...
...constantly put in the position of having to support a no-good general in Laos or a 1920's militarist like Chiang Kai-Shek," a noted historian claimed yesterday, describing the dilemma of U.S. policy toward shaky strong-man governments in the Far East...