Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...inner office of the city hall, Lieut. Colonel John Joseph Livingston of Alexandria, Va., deputy chief of the U.S. Army's civil assistance team, sat wearing a sheepskin vest with a pistol strapped around his chest. His telephone rang. He sent an officer down for the mayor. The mayor had gone home. "Get somebody else, then," Livingston said. The officer went down and came back again. "There's nobody, Colonel. Only one man, and I don't even think he works here. I think he's a social friend of somebody in the office and maybe...
...warlordism, other parts of his program have lagged far behind the growth of military strength. Most of Mao's social and economic promises to China's people have been put aside. Although many Western observers expected a rise in living standards to follow the end of the civil war, the opposite has happened. Living standards in most of China have fallen since Mao took over, largely because of the disruption and liquidation of the merchant (distributor) class. Railroads and other public services are much more efficiently managed than during the civil war. Inflation has been checked, largely because...
When they were unraveling the old myths and weaving their own, the men to whom all cats and causes are grey worked out a version of the American Civil War. Regional economic rivalry, they said, had been heated up by New England abolitionists and dream-wrapped Southern devotees of Sir Walter Scott; the unnecessary struggle that resulted eventually ended, as it had to do, with victory for the side with the most iron foundries; it was rather a pity that the names of two such broad-minded individuals as Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee ever got mixed...
This and kindred myths (at their height in the 19305) have now begun to fray because they run counter to the American experience o-f the last nine years. Henry Steele Commager's book may help to finish the job, and to put the Civil War back where it belongs-in the center of the American story. With the war left out, the American character is incomprehensible, and dangerously so. In 1861 and in 1950, the American represented himself (and believed himself) as despising politics and loving comfort above all men. Yet the American has always been deeply political...
...understood without being told. Commager, in his introduction, repeats a Winston Churchill story: the day of Pearl Harbor, some Britons doubted that the easygoing U.S. had the will and stamina to fight as it would have to fight. Says Churchill: "But I had studied the American Civil War, fought out to the last desperate inch ... I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful...