Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locked tight to its present conquered territory, engaged solely in guarding its garrison posts and communication lines. Against them Chinese forces in the last six months have won back more towns and outposts than they have lost. Without sending more men to China, the Chinese argue, the Japanese cannot marshal at any one point the necessary strength for a successful offensive. Proof that the Japanese are stalled is in the fact that no recent offensive has been undertaken and that the Japanese have merely been lunging here, thrusting there, without coordination or important effect...
Last May Nazi Party headquarters in Berlin decreed that all Nazis except Adolf Hitler were to be addressed at party meetings and in political gatherings simply as Parteigenosse ("Party Comrade"). Thus Herman Göring, who can be called Field Marshal, Air Marshal, Minister President of Prussia, Reichsminister for Air, and Special Commissioner for the Four Year Plan, will hereafter be addressed simply as Party Comrade Göring. Führer Hitler, whose title was Der Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Chancellor of the Reich) was to be called Mein Führer. While some critics...
There was a Nazi demonstration last week at Tiegenhof, in the rich meadow land across the Vistula, but it scarcely compared to the turnout which had already been staged for such Nazi bigwigs as Field Marshal Hermann Göring and Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess. Against the Poles, who are outnumbered by Germans 24-to-1 but who run the public services in Danzig, Adolf Hitler can never lay the complaint that they suppressed Germanity in the Free City. But despite the surface calm, Poles could list last week numerous serious complaints against Germans. It was these which...
...Reinhardt in 1932. While he was consul at Seattle, the Strassburger Foundation to further U. S.-German friendship awarded its $1,000 prize to his terse, lively, human, 367-page Washington biography, The Story of the Making of a Nation. In it Author Reinhardt compared General Washington to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, his all-time hero. Among the literary judges who picked the book were Scientist Albert Einstein, Authors Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig. All are now dead or in exile...
Previously, H. Lane Blackwell, Jr. '39 had delivered the Ivy Oration to which President Conant referred, remarking that: "The Chief Marshal, Mr. Saltonstall, can speak for himself, but as far as I am concerned I can but repeat Falstaff's remark that while I, myself, am not funny, I am often times a source of with in other men. The Ivy Orator has proved that this afternoon...