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...aiming for an imaginary secret munitions plant in Belfast. Besides testing both invaders and defenders on tactics, the games were intended to exercise the armies' logistical services: kitchens, ammunition details, supply corps, ambulance units. Actual battle conditions were feigned in every detail, right down to fifth columnists who lent boats to the invaders so that they might cross the huge inland lake, Lough Neagh, and, though seasick, encircle the bungling defenders...
Intellectual class was lent the Kaiser's Drang dream by Geopoliticians Paul Rohrbach and Friedrich Naumann. It was Dr. Rohrbach who contended that the British Empire could be attacked and mortally wounded in the Near East. That sounded good to the Kaiser. It has also sounded good to Herr Hitler, whose world-swallowing ideas are formulated by retired Major General Professor Karl Haushofer, a contemporary and fellow ideologist of Herr Doktors Rohrbach and Naumann. In Syria today is a direct human link between the Drang dreams of Hitler and Hohenzollern. He is Baron Max von Oppenheim...
...become an active partner of totalitarian Germany seemed more likely than ever last week. What shady dickerings went on between Reichsführer Hitler and newly designated Premier Stalin were secrets known only to the Kremlin and the Wilhelmstrasse, but rumors from Ankara of German troop concentrations in Rumania lent credence to a report by Correspondent John T. Whitaker that Hitler was forcing Stalin's hand. Possibly Joseph Stalin was waiting to see whether Britain could hold Suez before making a deal with Hitler in the Middle East, but it was disquieting news for the Democratic World that...
...Office of Education, have given short courses to more than 1,000,000, besides enrolling a record 760,000 in full-time courses. About half their special trainees were green or rusty hands, half were employed mechanics improving their skill. Working hand in glove with factories, which lent teachers, the schools by last week were sending 70% of their graduates directly to jobs...
...years was controlled by the family of Henry Worthington Button. In its antediluvian quarters across from the Old South Meeting House, the editorial offices of the Transcript reminded visitors of the sedate reading rooms of the Athenaeum. Reporters, scrupulously chosen with regard to social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman as the elevator inched upward: "Our trees grow faster than this...