Word: attach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's Imperial days her Ambassadors & Ministers had no control over the military & naval attachés attached to her embassies & legations. They were considered a corps d'élite. Culled from highest German aristocracy, they reported directly to Wilhelm II, All Highest War Lord. Last week authority to send out such attachés again, for the first time since the War, was sought from aristocratic Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher by himself in his military rôles of Defense Minister and General...
This pledge, according to Chancellor von Schleicher, constitutes recognition of Germany's "equality rights," and therefore entitles her to send out military & naval attachés as is done by other Great Powers. As a starter, Defense Minister von Schleicher will send naval attachés to London, Paris, Rome; military attachés to Moscow, Paris, London, Washington, Rome, Warsaw, Prague...
...Washington as military attaché will go the Commandant of Germany's famed Jüterbog Artillery School, bristling Major General Friedrich von Boetticher who has personally directed the fire of almost all the 288 field guns allotted Germany under the Treaty of Versailles. London will get as naval attaché Captain Erwin Wassner who commanded a submarine in the English Channel, won a decoration from All Highest Wilhelm II for his smart torpedo work...
Since 85-year-old President von Hindenburg has no head for reading attachés' reports they will be handed in to the various German Ambassadors and Ministers who will pop them into diplomatic pouches, send them direct to Statesman von Schleicher...
Several dozen Frenchmen decided last week that no stigma of default should attach to them. They would pay their share of the $19.000,000 which La Pa trie did not pay on Dec. 15 to les yanquis. Seizing paper & pencil they divided the 480,000,000-franc default by the population of France, 41,000,000, figured that each owed the U. S. between eleven and twelve francs (about 47?), popped this tidy sum into an envelope and mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their...