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...were discarded tacticians sent off by World War I commanders in chief to dig trenches on the forgotten Macedonian front. But French General Franchet d'Esperey clearly recognized a strategic advantage and sent his neglected troops slicing toward the heart of Germany through the Balkans, thus hastening the Kaiser's downfall...
More reasonable and less wasteful is the contract between California's Kaiser Steel Corp. and the United Steelworkers. Under it, any worker displaced by automation goes into an employment "reserve," receives his average wage of the past while being retrained and waiting for reassignment. Kaiser also offers vacation time based on productivity gains. Variations of the Kaiser-Steelworkers' arrangement are being tried out elsewhere with success. The Electrical Workers, for instance, are organizing training courses to teach members to work in atomic energy and other advanced fields. But organized labor as a whole has hardly begun to face...
...GARDENERS OF SALONIKA by Alan Palmer. 285 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.50. Late in September 1918, the Kaiser was bluntly told by his generals that Germany had lost World War I. Why? "As a result," Field Marshal von Hindenburg explained, "of the collapse of the Macedonian front." He was stunned. He had been scarcely aware that there was a Macedonian front, let alone that it mattered. And, like the Kaiser, historians have largely ignored the mixed army of British, French, Serbs, Greeks and Italians that broke through the Macedonian mountains, forced Bulgaria's surrender, and was sweeping northward toward...
...Bleeding Ulcer. The Macedonian campaign, which started as a seemingly minor ulcer, ultimately bled Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany to death. But, speculates Author Palmer, "if the breakthrough was possible in 1918, would not a determined offensive earlier in the war have had the same result?" And if it had, how many fewer Allied and German soldiers would lie buried beneath the red poppies of Flanders' fields...
World War I changed all that. Hesse protested publicly against the Kaiser's policies, suffered an emotional breakdown, was cured by a pupil of Switzerland's Carl Jung, and in 1919 published Demian, the story of a young man's struggle for identity that electrified a generation looking for a way out of moral and political disaster...