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Facts. They could say they had launched the biggest pitched battle ever fought. Acting on the fundamental Clausewitz dictum, "Concentrate the maximum of forces in the direction of the main blow," the Germans had drawn forces from both southern and northern fronts. They had thrown into this great push toward Moscow more than two-thirds of their entire infantry forces in Russia, three-quarters of their Panzer forces. Altogether the Germans were using some 1,700,000 infantrymen, 450,000 motorized troops, 14,000 tanks...
...divert the home folks, the German news agency D.N.B. estimated that the German Armies had occupied 388,185 square miles. This, the estimators said (forgetting the German dictum that geographical advance is not so important as military annihilation), was more than twice the area of old Germany. They failed to add that it was less than one-twentieth of Russia...
...Casey dictum, and there are many, is that "only people with poor equipment or foresight have adventures." On that principle, he usually makes use of all kinds of bleak understatements in his reports to his home office. One of them from London read: "Hotel just blown out from under me. Filing tomorrow. Regards." For maladroit London censors, Casey was a baffling problem. Effective was his ironic report of an air raid in which he reduced censorship to complete inanity by refusing to mention even the name of the country bombed...
...Stamm is fundamentally a serious teacher and philosopher. He believes that emotional and intellectual solidity requires experience with pessimism, such as is represented by Schopenhauer and Calvin. His balanced view of man is summed up in a characteristic dictum: "There is something ridiculous, pathetic and sacred about every human being...
Fifteen wayward sons of Harvard, Amherst, and Dartmouth turned up in the Northampton Court House yesterday morning at 9 o'clock to receive the dictum handed down by the elderly, slightly myopic judge...