Word: militarist
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...past sent out peace feelers, went Hans Thomsen, the steady, approachable, onetime Charge d'Affaires in Washington. To Spain, whose Mediterranean coastline confronts the Allies in North Africa, went Hans Adolf von Moltke, German Ambassador to Poland when that country was invaded. To Japan, replacing the tried & trusted militarist General Eugen Ott, went an economist, young Heinrich Stahmer...
...Dutch East Indies (pop. 70,000,000) were defended by only 20,000 white troops and 50,000 poorly trained natives, so the Japanese simply dashed in, barely noticing their casualties. Said Prussian Militarist Carl von Clausewitz in 1812: "On no account should we overlook the moral effect of the rapid running assault. It hardens the advancing soldier against danger, while the stationary soldier loses his presence of mind...
...Minister of Interior, Franco chose Bias Gómez Perez, who loudly brayed: "Repression with unswerving energy of all provocations or acts of sabotage." Gómez replaced Colonel Valti Galaraza Morante, a militarist who feuded with Falangist civil governors...
Stalin then vented a contempt and conviction which have stayed with him, and have done much to shape the modern Red Army. He had no use for the man who was merely a professional militarist; for Stalin, officers and men had to be citizens of the revolution as well. When the Red cause seemed all but lost in south Russia, Stalin wrote to Lenin: "The fact is that our experts are not only psychologically incapable of ruthlessly combatting the counterrevolution, but likewise, being staff workers who know only how to make field sketches and draft plans for realignment, are absolutely...
...Eurasian Triangle may be divided into a European fuse or detonator, and an Asiatic powder charge." The history of Europe in the last hundred years is a history of the attempt to explode this bomb by bringing together the detonator and powder charge. "The detonator is composed of the militaristic peoples that have for centuries dominated or attempted to dominate Europe. ... To the militarist the resources of the Asiatic powder keg mean more than generalities. . . . The manpower of this continent has great military significance. . . . Every battalion of natives that a Hitler could raise in Asia would release a battalion...