Word: command
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anglo-French unity of command was spotlighted brightly enough to be visible as far as Berchtesgaden as little General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Commander in Chief of all French land, sea and air forces, arrived in London one day last week for talks with Britain's Chief of the Imperial General Staff, John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Sixth Viscount Gort. In full regalia the generals met in London's Victoria Station. Together they toured Sandhurst and Aldershot where Lieut. General Sir John Dill showed off his latest tanks. General Gamelin peeped inside...
Once the Randolphs are off to the Gold Coast with the proper blessing, Cinemactor Smith retires to rest up for the next imperial command, leaving the script to its own Sunday-supplement involvements. Operating on the Gold Coast is a scientific expedition with a German accent, run by a retired munitions magnate named Zurof. Zurof's outfit is stealthily engaged in cornering mines of war materials. Also operating somewhere in the neighborhood is a warmongering Mystery Radio, spewing anti-British propaganda and urging sabotage on all outposts of the Empire...
Quality. Anyone who translates these raw figures into inevitable victory for either side is misled. Quality counts as much as or more than quantity. In World War I, for example, command of the air changed hands several times, and the command changed not only when numbers varied but when one side introduced a superior new plane which could outfight the opposing machines. Something of the same sort was seen recently in Spain where German Messerschmitts 109 could outfly Russian Moscas, Russian Chatos could out-maneuver Italian Fiats. In general, Germany is known to have some of the best fighting ships...
...theory of victory by Blitzkrieg (lightning war) is untried and, in the opinion of many experts, unsound. Further, if Germany plans to carry war deep into Russian territory in case of Soviet participation, old Moscow Generals January and February (alias Cold and Hunger) will probably ruin Chief of High Command Wilhelm Keitel's reputation even as they ruined Napoleon's in 1812. But whatever their failings in grand strategy, the Germans are among the world's greatest technicians...
...when soldiers welcomed the use of its huts but resented the attentions of its gladhanding, often sanctimonious secretaries. Latterly the Y. M. C. A. in the U. S., with its $212,000,000 in property and endowment and its $48,000,000 income, has been accused-because its high command eschews politico-economic controversy-of being socially laggard, of being a closed corporation in which working secretaries tend to become older and older. Nevertheless, if the Y. M. C. A. has diluted its Christian message in nominally Christian nations, it has become a powerful force for Christian leadership elsewhere...