Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...callow youth, privileged to write for one of the evening papers from Camp Grant, declares that "the salute must go," that "the American people are not given to permitting themselves to be lowered socially by any mark of deference...
...back and given a few rudimentary lessons in what the salute--either military or civilian--means. We do not know where he was bred, if he was bred at all, but it is time if he is to write at Camp Grant or elsewhere he learned that no man, American or otherwise, is "lowered socially" by any "mark of deference." A man is "lowered socially" by the neglect of marks of deference, not by yielding them...
...armies except the army that ran away before the Germans in Russia recently--is a symbol of the discipline without which an army is an ungovernable mob which a handful of real soldiers can put to rout. The young ignoramus who writes from Camp asks, "Why should an American citizen humble himself to every stripe or collar mark that indicates a grade higher in the service than himself?" The answer is that he does not humble himself. The salute is a mark of respect not given to the individual but to the rank, therefore to the system of which...
...allies to blame for Cadorna's terrible defeat on the upper Isonzo? Probably that question will be discussed for a good many years to come. The Italians' own confidence in their military competence may be taken by the British and French writers as an excuse for British, French and American neglect, but it excuses the Allies only in a slight degree. It is true that General Cadorna had been regarded as having established his military competence. Nobody supposed that he would leave the strategically most important portion of his line inadequately defended. But the question of responsibility does...
...Alfred de Sassance, most kindly took the funeral arrangements into his own hands and thus enabled us to have everything done. . . . Services were held in the English church in Pau. All officers and pilots of the school attended; also the mayor, many civil authorities, and several American residents. Five young Americans and myself acted as pall-bearers. . . . Two pilots flew above the cortege. This is the honorary salutation given to French pilots...