Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy. Result: Charlie Thomas ably kept the Navy on course as it steamed at flank speed into the heady age of nuclear submarines, larger carriers, jet planes and missiles, kept it clear of the shoals of congressional troubles, politics and Pentagon infighting that had sometimes marred its postwar history...
...Postwar Politics: Elected mayor of Arras and Deputy for Department Pas-de-Calais in 1945; still holds both jobs. Challenged Socialist Party leadership because it had "lost touch with militants"; succeeded to secretary-generalship, won complete control in 1946; served as minister without portfolio under Premier Leéon Blum. As a Socialist, stoutly opposes Communists ("They are not left but East...
Playing the humble part of the kuro-maku-the faceless stagehand of Japanese drama who bustles about, manipulating scenery behind a black curtain in a supposedly invisible state-Kishi, in recent years, has been a potent force in Japanese postwar politics, a skillful, hardworking, practical politician with a rare skill in threading his way between the excessive views of opposing factions at home and abroad. "We are opening windows to both sides, so to speak," Kishi has said of Japan's relations with East and West, " instead of keeping one side closed as before." A Japanese patriot...
Beyond the War. The howling wind of Hitler and Hitler's war blows the friendly enemies apart. When the two men meet just before war's end, both are less doctrinaire, though the pastor has been clapped into prison for calling Hitler the Antichrist. Convinced that postwar Germany will most need men like the pastor, the psychiatrist lays down his life so that the pastor may live. In humility, the pastor tacitly acknowledges this sacrifice as the act of a greater Christian than himself...
...such an atmosphere two foreign ambassadors arrived in Tokyo to take up their duties. The first was black-mustached Ivan Fedorovich Tevosyan, Russia's first postwar ambassador to Japan, who was greeted at the airport only by a minor Foreign Office official and a handful of Communists and left-wingers. The second was Douglas MacArthur II. veteran State Department official whose illustrious uncle is well remembered in Japan. Ambassador MacArthur got a full official welcome at the airport, in a demonstration that was swelled by left-wingers with unwelcoming placards: "Give Back Okinawa...