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...military advisers in 1927, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek first bought the services of Lieut.-General George Wetzell, who was followed by General von Falkenhausen. For a brief period General Hans von Seeckt, former commander of the German Republic's Reichswehr, served as a super-adviser. Under German advice, Prussian discipline-including the goosestep-was introduced into Chinese crack divisions. Most important to Germany was the fact that the mission persuaded China to buy German military equipment...
First battlefield appearance of Red Cross units was in the Dano-Prussian War of 1864. The Red Cross was respected as a protecting symbol for doctors, nurses, medical units in many later wars-the Austro-Prussian, the Franco-Prussian, the Russo-Japanese, the Balkan, the World War, in some Colonial wars, in a few civil wars. Not until 1935 did the first flagrant, consistent abuse of the Red Cross symbol occur. Then giant red crosses painted on Ethiopian hospitals became welcome targets for Italian airmen. Against this abuse, International Red Cross President Max Huber, former justice of The Hague...
Should Adolf Hitler desire to absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village...
...stops of German emotion had now been pulled out as far as they would go. Sobbing, blubbering, thousands of Viennese alternately laughed, cried, cheered and were all broken up outside the Imperial Hotel as they clamored for Adolf Hitler. Said a Prussian officer of the Guard, surveying the Viennese through his icy monocle: "Such transports! Berlin itself has never gone as wild as this. Munich perhaps, ja Munich...
...Ministry suggested that the farmers call upon Church Minister Hans Kerrl. At the Church Ministry it was suggested that they try new Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. But even though the East Prussian farmers were thus shunted around they got action last week. The State, unwilling to have such horny-handed folk go back disgruntled to the Hindenburg Country and grumble, abruptly released most of the East Prussian pastors, none a nationally prominent figure in the Church...