Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined issue were professional exponents of known views. None owned a fresh voice to bespeak the people's horror of war. But at 10:45 o'clock (E.D.S.T.) one night last week that voice was heard, the voice of the one U. S. citizen who could command a radio audience comparable to Franklin Roosevelt...
...last week came reports which were shockingly new, inescapably true. For seven days on end the Japanese were consistent. First, they rearranged their continental high command. Supreme command of forces in China was given to one of the Army's best strategists, Toshizo Nishio. Recently resigned War Minister Seishiro Itagaki was made Lieut. General Nishio's Chief of Staff. Command of the Kwantung Army, the able if imaginative force which since May 11 had been making the barren plains of Manchukuo a bramble of practically uncountable wrecked Russian planes, was given to one of the Army...
...flag of truce, delivered an ultimatum that the city must surrender in 24 hours or siege guns would be moved up. General Czuma refused to receive the message. Nazi airplanes then dropped leaflets repeating the ultimatum. General Czuma agreed to parley on evacuating all civilians and the Nazi high command ordered his spokesman to come out of the city in a car, at night, with truce flags specially spotlighted. All firing must cease...
...Army from its Versailles shackles. Unlike many of his colleagues, he was able to give his allegiance to the Nazis as well as to the Army. Marked as a man whom Hitler could trust, he rose rapidly after the Nazis came into power. In 1933 he was given command of the East Prussia Military District, one of the most important in Germany because of its vulnerability from both Poland and Russia. It was Brauchitsch who was responsible for the East Prussian fortifications that were built after 1933 - a complicated system of blockhouses and two heavy fortresses designed to make East...
...Brauchitsch became chief of Group Command 4 in Leipzig, the jumping-off place to the top jobs in the German Army. By then the Army was in a turmoil. Hitler was impatient to begin his grabs and the Army knew it was not ready. Loyalties were split between the Army and the Nazis, and there was sharp disagreement between those who were willing to back Hitler in a bluff and those who counseled delay. Brauchitsch kept mum, but when the purge came and Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs,* his good friend Reichenau recommended him to Hitler...