Word: occidentalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Occident also is concerned with the Arab world because in the Levant (Syria and Lebanon), France clings to shreds of empire, and will not give them up without a struggle which may well endanger world cooperation for the peace.
And millions of people in the Occident cannot forget the Arab world because it includes Palestine. Ibn Saud personifies and constantly bespeaks the Arab case for an all-Arab Palestine. The U.S. and British Governments are committed to a Jewish Palestine-not necessarily all-Jewish, but with too many Jews...
Victims and Successors. Out went: Field Marshal Gen. Sugiyama, the brilliant, irascible, Occident-hating Army Chief of Staff, opposite number of the U.S.'s George Marshall; and big, competent (to a point) Fleet Admiral Osami ("Elephant") Nagano, opposite number of the U.S.'s Ernie King.
>A general in whose opinion the noblest productions of the Occident are ice cream and bedpans.
Later, in the air, "time has ceased to run sterile through my fingers. Now, finally, I am installed in my function . . . an organism integrated into the plane. . . . The battle between the Nazi and the Occident was reduced to the scale of my job." At that point he realized that if...