Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very good time" to be celebrating birthdays, mused the General. He then recommended that the U. S. Army, having just been upped to 227,000 by Presidential decree, be forthwith increased by Congress to full peacetime strength (280,000). "Finally," said he, "I must again recall our deplorable situation when we entered the World War 22 years ago. Then not a single (military) move had been made ... to prepare for it. That experience with its costly lesson, I am happy to say, appears certain to be avoided in the event that we should again become involved...
Inspection confirmed her commander's theory of how the Squalus was flooded. One of her two air-intake valves tested at Portsmouth closed in good order. But the other stuck, closed only after repeated efforts, indicating how death had flooded the Squalus...
...Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made it clearer: "His Majesty's Government do not think a declaration of war on Russia follows automatically as a matter of good faith on the invasion of Poland...
Lord of the Lightning, which in less than three weeks had struck down a nation of 34,000,000 people, defended by an Army of 2,000,000, was a middleaged, middle-sized, good-looking soldier who was fighting his first war. As befitted the director of such forces as he commanded, he had no permanent headquarters, but was first in one place, then in another. He had supervised the advance of the East Prussian divisions which, in the first days of the war, drove straight for Warsaw, only to be held up momentarily at Pultusk and Plonsk. These obstacles...
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...