Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split off from the parent in 1936, started to diversify soon after World War II, when Dick Boutelle took over the presidency. A onetime Army Air Corps major who went to Fairchild in 1941, Boutelle decided that plane contracts alone were not enough to see the company through the postwar readjustment. Operating out of a trophy-filled office resembling the living room of a big-game hunter, which he is, Dick Boutelle's first move was to stalk any idea that promised a profit. He toyed with a lightweight train, a gasoline-filled glider as an aerial tanker, even...
...shape of his own convictions on military organization. Almost every paragraph bristles with Ike's first person singular, e.g., "I have long been aware . . ." "I have directed . . ." "I therefore propose . . ." Many conclusions are based directly on his service as World War II Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, his postwar tour of duty as Army Chief of Staff (1945-48) and adviser on earlier unsuccessful attempts at unification. Principal recommendations...
Even the most dedicated French parliamentarians are beginning to question how long the Fourth Republic's weak parliamentary system-of ineffectual Premiers and squabbling Assembly-can or should last. The latest critic: Robert Schuman, himself head of two of France's 24 postwar governments, and now newly elected president of the European Parliamentary Assembly. In the course of a speech on European integration given at the University of Virginia, Schuman injected a "marginal and probably incautious remark." Said...
...pumped by Gunther also turn to him for information. Says Egypt's President Nasser: "You have to take Gunther seriously, because he tells both sides." Inside Europe landed in Churchill's library (and so firmly in Hitler's bad book that Gunther was marked for postwar liquidation by the Nazis). Inside Asia was on Harry Truman's desk when he broadcast his V-J day speech. Inside Africa was studied dutifully by Russia's Dmitry Shepilov, who cited it in a United Nations tirade against British colonialism, and by Richard Nixon, whose party was weighted...
...Lancaster the postwar U.S. is a broken Samson. Old New Dealing pals turn against him when he warns of the rising Communist menace. His best friend, ex-U.S. Defense Secretary Roger Thurloe (a fictional double of the late James Forrestal), exhausted and embittered by the spectacle of U.S. fumbling in the face of Communism, jumps to death from a hospital window. Ro's wife dies of cancer; their two sons mature into selfish little parasites. And Lancaster is left trying to recapture his lost youth with a paltry redhead...