Word: hirschauer
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...deemed fairly safe from attack from England, she could start a new line of worry, get busy with air-raid defenses which probably had been rudimentary and slipshod (Russian pilots reported that Berlin was brightly lighted). She also got a new boss of her anti-aircraft defenses: General Friedrich Hirschauer, appointed to replace an unnamed officer who presumably had fallen down...
...with alarm. It appeared to all European military experts that the German infantry machine was being put on a footing more powerful than the French for the first time since 1914. Amid the yelps of every Paris paper appeared such cold, professional judgments as this from General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer: "It is my opinion that bringing the conscription period up to two years enables Germany to begin a war without prior mobilization...
...Senate old General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer cried, quivering with emotion: "I cannot vote this bill!-considering that a fortnight ago we refused to pay America, and yet American soldiers fought admirably to defend our soil, as I can testify!" Unmoved, the Senate voted the Austrian loan 14440-68, after which Chamber & Senate adjourned...