Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanaka: "I think Admiral Togo† is the greatest man in Japanese history. Togo was an honest nationalist, which is not the same thing as a militarist. I also respect Admiral Yamamoto [who planned and carried out the attack on Pearl Harbor], not as a militarist but as an excellent human being. I had a copy of his biography, but when we surrendered I burned...
Tanaka: "I then thought that the Americans would punish me for having such a book, so I burned it and many others. Now I would not do so because I know Americans value freedom of thought. In the old days, we had no chance to think for ourselves. Now we can, and most of us have changed our minds, but democracy has come so fast that we are not yet able to understand all its meaning and spirit...
...again when he returned to his native Germany. After receiving the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize, he planned to go to Weimar, in the Russian zone, to accept a similar honor. "We who fought Naziism on German soil for twelve years," huffed the Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, "think that those who invited Thomas Mann to a public festival in Frankfurt were badly advised...
...Angeles Catholic weekly, the Tidings, and a leader among the younger, liberal element in the church. Tall, silver-haired Father McCarthy went to Los Angeles in 1937 at his own request, just after he had been ordained in Springfield, Mass., in his home diocese. "I don't think I could have stood New England," he says now. "The forward movement is so imperceptible...
Astronomers think that the new asteroid will prove a useful tool in their unearthly studies. Since it comes close to Mercury, it will help them measure (by changes in its orbit) the mass of the planet, which is not known very exactly. "But [an asteroid] is rather like a concerto," explained Dr. Richardson. "It has no real practical value...