Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus asking the U. S. to abandon its historic Army policy, Hugh Drum shocked his more timorous colleagues. But he did not shock the high command in Washington. When General Malin Craig retired as Chief of Staff, he put the U. S. on notice that the U. S. military now wants its standing Army to be a fighting army, at least to the extent of five fully equipped divisions on constant peacetime call. Also on the military agenda, now that Congress has voted $961,293,102 to expand and equip the present Army, is a request for many more millions...
...rate, if either Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler-who have led their countrymen to believe that the other is the devil unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely take the trouble. They did not even bother to reveal who had undertaken the preliminaries to the greatest and quietest diplomatic about-face in modern European history...
...nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints, raids, tested the strength of the defenders. Thus it appeared that if Poland did not give way, Germany could move southeast; if Poland gave way there could be a general advance on all fronts. And like the advance forces of an army feeling out the strength of enemy positions, the purpose of the offensive was clear: it partially masked a surprise move that its directing genius had on hand; it tested each sector of the Polish, French, English defense...
...leader of Polish Germans, disbanded pro-Nazi German organizations. And although Germany swung troops into Slovakia, P'o-land's Ambassador to the U. S., Count Jerzy Potocki, summed up Polish feeling in Washington: "Just as surely as you see me sitting here there will be a general war if Germany attempts to change the status of Danzig." Member of one of the few great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that his grim warning surprised reporters. Said Count...
...every great general has succeeded in expressing this axiom of military science so sententiously. But every real master of strategy, from Carthage's Hannibal and Rome's Caesar to France's Gamelin, has understood the intimate relationship between troops and terrain, countryside and conquest, strategy and topography. Sometimes God is on the side of the heaviest battalions; sometimes, as in the case of Switzerland, He is on the side of the country with the tallest mountains. Geography has always decided where wars are fought and how they are fought. World War I was no exception. World...