Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Countess (the title is authentic) Marianna von Moltke, 46, greying, talkative poesy-minded wife of a professor of Wayne (Detroit's city-owned) University. (The professor is said to be a grandson of Bismarck's famed Prussian strategist. Field Marshal Count von Moltke.) With two sons in Germany, the Countess, Detroiters complain, has tried to interest college students in her pro-Nazi doctrines...
Readers recalled the old Prussian cere mony of offering a defeated fellow officer a cigaret, a revolver, one bullet...
...break an enemy attack. From Mexico he had watched Lee's dashing Confederates lose a war despite their commander's brilliance in attack. He had also learned that dramatic sorties were invaluable in North Africa but were risky against European armies. Finally, Bazaine saw with misgivings the Prussian invention of the needle gun, with its immense superiority of fire power. His conclusion: for France defensive war is better than offensive war. "It is better," he said, "to conduct operations systematically (i.e., defensively], as in the Seventeenth Century." "That delusion," says Author Guedalla, "was to cost France the loss...
Brotherhood Is Scarce. Through both these books, warning steadily of tragic postwar possibilities, runs the theme of international suspicions and hatreds. Mutual dislike was a feature common to the letters Graebner found on Austrian, Ba varian and Prussian soldiers. Lack of a second front, says Graebner, has turned many Russians against Britain and America. Occupied Persia fears Russia, is "sick and tired" of the British, accepts Americans enthusiastically only, perhaps, because they are "new." Graebner believes that American popularity is dwindling in Trinidad, South America and the Middle East as a result of violent "bad behavior" on the part...
...premature armistice allowed the Germans to believe that they had not been defeated on the battlefield, but tricked by allied promises not kept and stabbed in the back by unpatriotic elements within Germany. Faith in the invincibility of the German army remained and the incubus of Prussian militarism on the German mind was not broken. In face of this the victors did not cooperate, to enforce the peace, to prevent aggression, and to solve the problem of the security of France and of the small nations...