Word: hindenburg
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...they have either learned a great deal which is of unforgettable value, or they haven't. If they have, they have nothing to worry about, for they are the possessors of wisdom. If they haven't, they are incontestably stupid, and would learn nothing from Hindenburg, Brusiloff, and Petain conducting a seminar...
Already the well-known Krags have been brightened till they shine like the medals on von Hindenburg's chest. Cuban dirt has been dug from their cracks that has rested there since they fought with the boys in '98, and the rust scoured off the bayonets which has remained from the time of Aquinaldo's men. Scabbard and belt and rifle and uniform have been cleaned for the punctilious eyes of the reviewing officer...
...soldiers to Europe, but the process will be quickened by the moral effect of America's preparing on all sides. Don't you people over here think that there would be a great moral advantage for the Allies and the Germans to see the Stars and Stripes along the Hindenburg line? After all, what it really means is this, and the pacifists will only waste their time in arguing against it, that here in the United States you have a nation of 100,000,000 people eager to prepare, with practically unlimited resources at its command, and the greatest inventive...
...Terauchi in Japan and the beginning of the long deferred struggle for the control of the oil wells and wheat fields of the lower Danube. That Germany was surprised by the entry of Rumania into the war was made clear by the removal of von Falkenhayn; whether von Hindenburg can rectify the error of his predecessor is doubtful. Yet it would seem already that there was little military foresight to accompany the Allies' successful political coup in the Balkans...