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...World War I. And in charge of the Karelian Isthmus is General Harald Ohquist, who helped to design the series of positions that have come to be known as the Mannerheim Line. Finns say he knows every boulder on the isthmus. So well has he defended it against terrific frontal assaults that the Finns thought up a story about it. A Russian soldier knocks at the gates of Heaven and St. Peter opens the gates. "So you're dead now?" says St. Peter. "Oh, no," says the Russian. "According to the official communique, I'm still advancing...
...attacked in waves. Six times the Finns threw them back, with losses of 3,000 in two days, according to the Finns. But the Finns themselves lost heavily, and another 100,000 of Dictator Stalin's best troops were reported astride the Leningrad-Viipuri railway, massed for a frontal attack on Viipuri. It began to look as though the Finns could not hold on much longer. But still the Finns held...
Chinese strategy was superb. As they fell back toward Changsha, leading the Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...
With this limited delivery and this one gesture he kept the Republican Party alive in the Senate from 1934 to 1939. He developed a new system of attack on the New Deal. Instead of useless frontal offensives, Vandenberg went along with the New Deal far enough to find the flaws; then by reading and study mastered the technical answers to those flaws; then amended constructively. In this way he exposed the "dangers" of the Social Security's so-called $47,000,000,000 old-age reserve fund of the future. Similarly he won smashing victories over Franklin Roosevelt when...
...symptom is more vulnerable than the cause. Such tactics can at least supplement the long-range drive for examination reform. In attacking the symptom, the Crimson does not ignore the more fundamental aspects of the problem; it merely demands an immediate, practical course of action. That action is a frontal attack on the tutoring schools themselves...