Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Government posts and palace walls the Humpty Dumpties of Japan were having great falls. General Douglas MacArthur's purge of militarists and ultranationalists from public office was shaking down the old order in Japanese politics and society.
The elections were originally scheduled for late this month, but MacArthur's purge had disrupted party organizations and all campaign plans. At least 107 of the present Diet's Representatives (full membership: 466) were said to be ultra-nationalist or militarist, and therefore ineligible for reelection.
MacArthur's purge of officialdom stirred most Japanese more than Hirohito's scuttling of his divinity. The new parties and the press, consistently more liberal than the Government, gleefully belabored Shidehara's "do-nothing" administration. Cried Tokyo's influential Yomiuri Hochi: "The pursuit of those responsible...
He was rewarded by command of the party's Brown House headquarters at Munich. His brother, Albert, became Hitler's personal aide. Now, with the threads of Nazi command in his hands, he worked over the lists-1,800 names long-of those to be killed in the...
Maurice Chevalier, longtime darling of Paris music halls, seven-year darling of Hollywood (1928-35), said he was coming to Broadway in February. He had just been okayed (for the third time) as a French patriot. Embraced by the underground in 1944, cleared as a collaborationist by the Government last...