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West along the Coast. Kenney's combat airmen grew at their jobs. Their greatest victory was the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, where they sank every one of 2 2 ships in a Jap convoy headed south to reinforce the dug-in forces in the bitter fighting around Buna and Gona. In this technique Douglas MacArthur recognized one of the oldest principles of war-isolation of the battlefield-achieved with war's newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help...
Skillfully the Russians and their German comrades won over the Wehrmacht officers and men. They kept the German commanders posted, by battle map, on the steady German retreat, east & west. They worked on the tradition of Russo-German friendship among the German military cadres-a tradition implanted by Bismarck, cultivated by General Hans von Seeckt, who outwitted the Allies and armed the Reichswehr in part with the help of munitions and plane factories in Russia...
...became chairman of the Officers' League. Other charter members: Wilhelm Pieck, 68, participant with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the unsuccessful Communist attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, ex-Reichstag deputy, wheelhorse of the pre-Hitler German Communist Party; Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great-grandson of Bismarck, ex-Luftwaffe pilot, and a pro-Russian proselytizer among his fellow officers...
...Democracy." Said he: "We find that music and the arts are not necessarily characteristic of Democracy. In fact, the greatest music that has ever been composed was done so under tyrants. . . ." He mentioned Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Franck, Tchaikovsky, Schubert - all subjects of the Habsburgs, Napoleon, the Hohenzollerns, Bismarck, the Bourbons, the Romanoffs...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, 900 of them would pay $2.00 to eat gumbo creole and tenderloin steak, toast Mr. King in water (since the war, King has felt that liquor is out of place). Emil Ludwig, biographer of Bismarck, Napoleon and Franklin Roosevelt, would also publish a 62-page study of Mr. King's career. It described him as Mr. King hoped history would remember him-the great conciliator of Canada's contrary elements...