Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...airmen of an amazing German move. Though Germany's Armies on the Western Front had slashed through Belgium and Northern France until they were almost in sight of Paris, their swift advance had suddenly been halted by orders from General von Moltke's High Command-clue apparently to terrific pressure by the Russian Armies on Germany's Eastern Front. "As a matter of fact, was there a Battle of the Marne?" is the staggering question asked in General Galliéni's War Diary, just published posthumously at Paris. Under date of Sept. 25, 1914 this...
...Allied divisions then opposed by 44 German divisions. Galliéni, whom the French Cabinet had left behind as Military Governor of Paris when they tied to Bordeaux, received scant official thanks for his astuteness at the Marne, incurred Joffre's enmity, was forced out of active command and died at Versailles in 1916. But merit triumphed. On April 21, 1921, to the rapturous delight of Paris, dead General Galliéni was posthumously created a Marshal of France...
...Henry Leonidas Stevens Jr. of Warsaw, N. C., Commander of the American Legion (TIME, Sept. 12), should suddenly resign with the announcement that he had just discovered that his grandfather was a Negro, it would cause no more commotion in the U. S. than shook Germany last week at the news about Col. Düsterberg. Germany's Legion is the Stahlhelm, an organization of 1,000,000 veterans which plays politics frankly, drills on all occasions, was organized by a retired soda-water manufacturer named Franz Seldte and is drilled by a veteran of the Imperial General Staff: Lieut.-Colonel...
...Jewish Telegraph Agency was wrong. No one denied that Col. Düsterberg was a grandson of Abraham. Colonel Düsterberg maintained a painful silence. But the Stahlhelm bravely rallied round their Second in Command. Said Major von Stephani. organizer of the Stahlhelm's recent Berlin convention (TIME, Sept...
...Whither does this tremendous procession tend?" he asked last week in his presidential address. "Man was ethically unprepared for so great a bounty. In the slow evolution of morals he is still unfit for the tremendous responsibility it entails. The command of Nature has been put into his hands before he knows how to command himself. . . . So man finds this, that while he is enriched with a multitude of possessions and possibilities beyond his dreams, he is in great measure deprived of one inestimable blessing, the necessity of toil. . . . Where shall we look for a remedy? I cannot tell...