Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Britain and France part of some $46,000,000 which they agreed to loan to Poland just as the German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard Daladier, told him he planned to recruit at least 125,000 Poles to fight with the French. "Europe must be made over," declared Premier Sikorski, "in such a way as to restore independence and security to the oppressed nations: Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...quickly and badly cannot be doubted. Her neutrality is so precarious that the Führer's "last" chance for peace may also be Italy's last chance to maintain neutrality. Economically the country is in no condition to endure the belt-tightening that all European neutrals must undergo these days. Her typical products are not those that warring nations might buy. Her supply of raw materials is limited. Far from self-sufficient, what little peacetime trade Italy had is likely to dry up to the point where she can no longer pay for some of the essentials...
...Viceroy can declare war, but to put India's resources and men back of Britain he must have the support of the emaciated Mahatma M. K. Gandhi who holds no office but whose word is nevertheless virtual law to millions of potentially troublesome Hindus. In the last war India sent some 1,338,620 men to battle areas, all paid for out of the Indian Treasury, not to mention the wealth and materials that poured toward London. By last week some detachments of Indian troops had been sent already to Malaya and Egypt at no expense to the British...
...suffer higher than 20% casualties. That was when war was still in the mule and carbine stage. But changes in war technique have not changed an old military axiom: you cannot expect a unit which has lost more than one man in five to continue effective. It must be withdrawn from action, given two months' rest, completely reorganized. One reason that World War I fell into so many clinches and deadlocks was that the 20% Axiom was often ignored. The Lost Battalion, having been reduced from 660 men to 190, was yanked out, given two days' rest, sent...
Adolf Hitler's generals know what they are about. They have studied their Erich Ludendorff and their Giulio Douhet (an Italian theoretician who says that modern war must be fought with mass air attacks). They knew that their advance into Poland would be a pushover. Nevertheless their tactic was a Ludendorff infiltration, modified to suit a mechanized army. Long steel fingers reached into Poland's flesh, then clamped together and squeezed the blood out. This they did with speed which was only less amazing than their efficiency...