Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spectators and newsmen were counting on fireworks. As the hard-hitting leader of the 1949 "revolt of the admirals," Arthur Radford had opposed the building of the B-36 (as "a billion-dollar blunder") and had questioned the morality and military wisdom of "the atomic blitz." Now, across the table from him sat some of the Senate's strongest air-power advocates, among them Democrat Stuart Symington of Missouri, a Radford foe since his days as Truman's Secretary of the Air Force...
Qualified Answers. From the scars left by the revolt of the admirals, the committee turned to the open wounds left by Defense Secretary Wilson's proposed cuts in Air Force appropriations.* Disturbed by outgoing Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg's statement that he had not protested the cuts before the National Security Council, Maine's Margaret Chase Smith asked each of the four nominees whether he would "speak up" if he thought that the defense budget had been cut so much as to endanger the U.S. security. With varying degrees of qualification, each said he would...
Since the army's abortive revolt in September 1951, the country has been, by presidential decree, in a "state of internal war." While this does not affect the ordinary businessman or worker who keeps his mouth shut, it has a very real meaning for people suspected of being enemies of Perón. It means that the police may legally arrest any resident of Argentina and hold him indefinitely, without ever bringing any charge against him. (There are now an estimated 80,000 cops in Buenos Aires alone; New York City, with a population nearly three times as large...
...served in Washington, planning the Navy's air operations, later won two Distinguished Service Medals as commander of fast carrier task groups in the Pacific under Admirals "Bull" Halsey and Raymond Spruance. In 1949, on duty as commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, he led the famed "revolt of the admirals." At the congressional hearings, Radford blasted the Defense Department for sapping the Navy's offensive strength, called the 6-36 a "billion-dollar blunder." At one point, the Army chief of staff, General Dwight Eisenhower, became so angry at Radford that he refused to attend...
Kenya Crown Colony, ablaze with Mau Mau revolt, is the northernmost bastion of Britain's East African Empire. Should Suez fall to Egyptian nationalism (see below}, the huge British base at Mackinnon Road, 225 miles southeast of Nairobi, supported by its jet airfields, would almost certainly become the key to British strategy in the western Indian Ocean...