Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recall and the name of a Turkish or Bulgaria or even an Austrian general? Of the German field commanders who are generals by professional attainment rather than because of birth, we remember hardly as many as half a dozen. There was von Kluck, for instance, who lost at the Marne, and there are von Buelow in Italy and Mackensen. Do you readily think of any more? Among the French such names as Foch and de Castelnau occur, but when recently the command of the French forces in Italy was assigned, presumably to an officer of merit, the name was entirely...
...interesting to notice the German comments on the British drive, not only in the official reports, but also in the press. The War Office, in its communique, admitted briefly that their permanent positions had been broken into on a short front. But the interpretation accorded this admission in the newspapers is bound to have a greater effect on public opinion, and one of the most representative of these, the Lokal Anzeiger, actually attempts to portray it as a moral victory for the Germans. "The British attempt to break through," it writes, "collapsed entirely in the face of the extraordinary bravery...
...State," a long treatise comparing the German and French political systems, by Leon Duguit, professor of law at the University of Bordeaux, comprising over 200 pages, is the most important work as yet undertaken by the Law Review. This will later appear in book form...
...German and English Writers...
...German theory of political development will be explained by Professor James, of the University of Texas, in articles on the protection of the individual from the administration and by Professor Kruger of California in discussions about the German constitution...