Arcane,It was actually a guy named Morgenthau (I foegrt if he was the Hans Morgenthau that wrote the IR textbook, probably not) who came up with plans. At first, his ideas gathered momentum in the planning process. Then the term democracy crept into the rhetoric, and the focus of thinking on post-war Japan switched from demilitarization to democratization if the Japanese could safely become democratic, then they could be trusted with an industry, the logic went. By 1944, that way of thinking became the mainstream. If you want to debate the symantics of plan versus proposal, though, that's cool.
by Alexander 05:38:44 AM 2013.10.24 |