Word: prussian
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...loose federation, capable of interservice horse-trading, but seldom of clear-cut decision. Wilson bought the plea of retiring JCS Chairman Omar Bradley for additional authority for the chairman. This touched off a Navy outcry. The U.S., said the Navy's loyal spokesmen, is headed for the "Prussian system" of a single, supreme chief of staff. The spokesmen argued that the Prussian system is too inflexible to produce sound strategy; their real fear was and is that, under a single chief of staff, Navy interests may generally run a poor third to those of the Army and Air Force...
...wife, Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, British military expert and historian, has put together a first-rate book, amply illustrated with Amateur Photographer Rommel's own shots. The Rommel Papers give the most revealing picture yet of a brilliant commander who lived, fought and died in the Prussian tradition of military ruthlessness...
...larger of the two Germanys occupies the north and east, lies astride the Iron Curtain barrier. It is Protestant and Prussian, a culture half bourgeois and half aristocratic, a nation that looks East as well as West. This is the nationalist Germany hewn out by Martin Luther in the 16th century when he made his people's declaration of independence, political as well as spiritual, from the tottering visible unity of Rome. This is the Germany which has now been ripped in two by the war of Communism and the democracies. This is the Germany of Otto Dibelius. Once...
Inside the bones of a disciplined character, Dibelius has circulating a lively and urbane wit, a shrewd judgment of character, and a sense of realism that generally gets the better of his Prussian stubbornness. He gives his young pastors one cardinal maxim: "You must love men as they are, and not wait until they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled...
Probably less than 10% of Germany's nominal Protestants go to church regularly. Now, however, the churches are beginning to fill up. The Kirchentag (Church Day) rallies organized by Reinold von Thadden, a Prussian layman, with Germans from both East and West participating, have aroused more mass enthusiasm for their religion than Protestants have seen for the last century. Last year's rally, held in Stuttgart, drew a crowd...