Word: unificationism
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"Billion-Dollar Blunder." After V-J day, Radford's basic good judgment gave way to blinkered zealotry. He led the Navy fight against 1) unification of the armed forces under a strong Department of Defense, and 2) the Air Force's strategic-bombing concept, symbolized by the intercontinental...
On the last day of the Venice congress, when the delegates elected the party's new central committee by secret ballot, this hidden strength revealed itself. Of 81 central committee seats, Nenni and his followers won only 27. Unwilling to denounce the popular cause of Socialist unification in open...
In France, Foreign Minister Christian Pineau insisted that it is now "more necessary than ever to realize the unification of Europe. For France it is perhaps a question of life or death. At the very least, it is a question of our national independence." All over Europe there was a...
In the first years it relied heavily on exposés. It broke postwar West Germany's first parliamentary scandal with charges that two Bundestag Deputies were corrupt; they were not reelected. Later, before the 1953 elections, Der Spiegel charged bribe-taking in the right-wing Bayernpartei; all 17...
Among the services, only the Navy is reportedly strongly against the unification plan. Captain Richard T. Spoffard, Professor of Naval Science, said however, "I'm personally in favor of a high-echelon reorganization--keeping the separate services."