Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London buzzed with the attack on the popular, pretty Duchess, wife of the youngest brother of Britain's King George VI, Scotland Yard announced that its prisoner had just arrived in London from Australia, where the Duke of Kent is to go next fall as Governor General...
...wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura, firms that control 62% of the total wealth of Japan (Mr. Gunther calls them...
...French army, 800,000 men (with a trained reserve of 5,500,000) for a total male population of 20,000,000, was the big armed force of Europe from 1919 to 1935. Last September General Marie Gustave Gamelin, France's Chief of Staff, assured his Government that he could roll his men through the unfinished German Siegfried (or Limes) Line like marmalade. Both the German army and the Limes are stronger now, but as of June 1939 the French army is still the strongest all-around fighting machine in Europe...
...command changed not only when numbers varied but when one side introduced a superior new plane which could outfight the opposing machines. Something of the same sort was seen recently in Spain where German Messerschmitts 109 could outfly Russian Moscas, Russian Chatos could out-maneuver Italian Fiats. In general, Germany is known to have some of the best fighting ships in Europe. Britain is perhaps runner up in airplane quality; Russia, although she has many ships, is somewhere down near the tail of the procession...
France. Unlike the German army, the French army does not strut. The French people are proud of their soldiers, but do not worship them. Since the fiasco of General Boulanger's attempt at a military dictatorship in the 1880s and the Dreyfus case in the '90s, the French army has eschewed politics...