Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days McElroy, accompanied by General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, answered charges and innuendoes-based on the contention of Carl Vinson, true boss of his committee-that the plan would eventually lead to 1) elimination of the three separate services, 2) development of a Prussian general staff system or maybe a czar, and 3) the dissolution of the powers of Congress itself. Congress, said McElroy quietly, need have no concern about losing its legitimate power over the Defense Department. "The present authority of the Secretary of Defense is very large," said...
Open Invitation. "If ever there was an open invitation to the concept of the 'man on horseback,' this proposal is it," he intoned. The President, he declared, was trying to set up "a Prussian-type supreme command" that would eliminate military responsibilities of the service Secretaries, grant too great flexibility to the Defense Secretary in spending congressional appropriations-in effect, shut out Congress' watchful eye. "I know of no concept more dangerous...
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...made him quite comfortable, Voltaire had insisted that he must not be arrested again without plenty of notice. The court of Prussia's Frederick the Great was open to Voltaire as a refuge. But it consisted, says Author Mitford tartly, "of middle-class intellectuals, cosmopolitan Sodomites and Prussian soldiers"; moreover, jealous Emilie detested Frederick for trying to lure her lover to the Prussian court. Frederick's efforts to do so make some of the funniest sections of the book. Luckily for Emilie. monarch and mocker could not always hit it off-though Voltaire...
Mother Knew Best. Von Braun's origins had deep earthly roots in Prussian Junkerdom. A Von Braun fought the Mongols at Liegnitz in 1245, and the family's aristocracy was certified by the centuries. Wernher was born in Wirsitz, East Prussia (now part of Poland), the middle son of Baron Magnus von Braun, the local state administrator. Today Wernher's older brother, Sigismund, is counselor at the German embassy in London; his younger brother, Magnus, is program-control manager of the Chrysler Corp.'s new missile division in Detroit. Last week in a comfortable Oberaudorf apartment...