Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found them particularly impressive. Nineteen years ago last August Russians, too, were knocking at the gates of Warsaw. In the spring of that year Pilsudski had invaded the Russian Ukraine, been driven back so far that on August 12 Marshal Tukachevsky, following a plan worked out by a Tsarist general in 1831, circled Warsaw to the North; SimeonBudenny,with the Red Cavalry, had taken Lwow; a third force was ready to encircle Warsaw from the South; Dzerzhinsky, Polish-born nobleman, ruthless organizer of the Cheka, waited outside Warsaw to spring the uprising of the Warsaw proletariat...
...proletariat did not uprise. Marshal Tukachevsky drove on north. Budenny waited at Lwow. French General Weygand got to Warsaw (creating a lot of bitterness because Poles were always sore at French claims of saving the city), and the Bolshevik armies pounded home faster than they came...
...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's best diplomats, Lieut. General Yoshijiro...
...German officer entered Warsaw under a 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...
Three weeks ago Generaloberst Walther von Brauchitsch was little more than a name outside Germany, an untried general who was supposed to be a good organizer but no theorist, whose rise to the position of Commander in Chief of the German Land Forces had been due at least partly to his willingness to back Adolf Hitler where more experienced generals would not. This week Brauchitsch was a name to put beside those of Moltke, Ludendorff and Schlieffen: not only was he Germany's No. 1 Krieger (warrior), but he had fostered, planned and led the Blitzkrieg-and proved...