Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Seeckt reorganized the Reichswehr in 1919, Brauchitsch got an appointment as a major in Stettin. By 1922 he was head of artillery in the Defense Ministry, a key figure in Germany's miniature Army. He became a lieutenant colonel in 1925 and served a turn in a Prussian artillery regiment. In 1930 he was back in the Defense Ministry as director of military training, with the rank of colonel. His career seemed to lie in office work, and after serving briefly as chief of staff of the 6th Artillery Regiment he was given the routine assignment of inspecting...
...divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front, at week's end scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed to reduce the pressure of the French drive toward Neunkirchen. Should the fighting swing west from there, it would likely level the home of Hitler's roving Ambassador, Franz von Papen...
...Trade, for which Mr. Cross has been Parliamentary Secretary. By trade a merchant-banker, six-foot Ronald Cross has before now earned personal preferment as high as Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household in 1937. As lord-master of neutral shipping, he will now be a key war figure, with Viscount Cecil's record to shoot...
...POLAND: KEY TO EUROPE-Raymond Leslie Buell-Knopf ($3). History has now severely blue-penciled certain passages* in Poland: Key to Europe, by the ex-head of the Foreign Policy Association, now Round Table Editor of FORTUNE. Wonder is, however, that so much of the text can still stand. Candid, exhaustive, lucid, this is still by all odds the best available book on Poland, Europe's "Great Unpredictable...
...Key to understanding Poland, says Author Buell, is its peculiar domestic and external problems. They are numerous and acute. Poland has 1) an unfortunate place on the map, between two countries which have more than once collaborated in partitioning it; 2) no natural frontiers; 3) desperate agrarian problems, aggravated by lack of markets and a surplus population; 4) explosive minorities (approximately 3,300,000 Jews, 750,000 Germans, 1,500,000 White Russians, 5,000,000 Ukrainians in a population of 34,500,000) ; 5) precarious political conflicts, kept in check only by the Poles' fervent nationalism. Thus traditional...