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...horsemen to visiting newspapermen, then put on his show next day. He had indeed demonstrated that modern cavalry could flow off roads, through brush and sand, over ridges and through gullies which would slow or balk any mechanized force. And horsed units, within the limits of a rough battlefield, could speedily transport an impressive array of fire power: a modern U. S. Cavalry division's 6,476 horses and 10,100 officers and men should carry, among other things, 9,764 pistols, 942 light & heavy machine guns, 117 artillery pieces, 4,863 Garand rifles...
...original members' (Dallas' Tank Sausage Local No. 1) campaign: blunt points on bayonets, better enforcement of antinoise and assault ordinances on the battlefield, rear-view mirrors and road flares for tank equipment, creation of king's-X areas on battlefields for tired soldiers. Title assumed by Bergman and friends: Founding Fodders...
...imports ?50,000,000 ($200,000,000). That such enormous quantities of goods still moved in & out of British ports, long since "rendered use less" according to the propaganda of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, was a great military triumph. But on the economic battlefield it was grave that Britain's adverse balance has risen from ?27,000,000 ($108,000,000) per month...
...contest at all, drew the line at prizes, allowed only Awards of Merit. Said the publicity adviser of the campaign: "Five-or ten-shilling prizes would have made a tremendous difference to the 60 successful kids. But there are more corpses in the Civil Service than on any battlefield...
Peace. Wrote Author Lyle, before the Armistice: "Back in 1918 peace as an actual fact astounded the world hardly less than the outbreak of the war. . . . On the battlefield we were winning. . . . It was the moment that all German effort during three years had played for ...Germany kept none of her colonies. . . . In the matter of armament she proved as tractable, and for as good a reason. . . . Disarmed, she had naught to fear from democracies disarmed also...