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...Pupils. German-Japanese military relations began in the year that Tomoyuki Yamashita was born, 1885. The Japanese, when they first opened themselves to the world, had modeled their fighting forces on the French. But France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War eventually turned the Japanese genius for emulation toward Germany. In 1885 a student of Marshal von Moltke, Major Meckel, went to Japan with a military mission to teach the sword swingers the smell of powder...
...proficient killer. He joined the Navy as a cadet, won several promotions as an officer, was cashiered when a drunken brawl over a woman reached the courts. Then he entered the Nazi movement, looked about for a chance to rise. A chance appeared-blackmail. Learning that a Prussian official named Koch was in correspondence with the dissident Gregor Strasser, Heydrich courted Koch's wife and stole the letters. Armed with these, he extorted a recommendation to Himmler, who gave him a post with the Munich Elite Guard. Thereafter his rise was rapid. Just before the war insiders estimated that...
Professor Laurence B. Packard '09, of Amherst, visiting lecturer on History at the University, will speak on the history and significance of Prussian militarism tonight at 7:30 o'clock over Station WRUL's "World Affairs" series...
Rousseau's Jungle. An ex-army sergeant who fought with the Emperor Maximilian in Mexico and in the Franco-Prussian War, Henri Rousseau retired at 41 from his job inspecting baggage and decided to devote the rest of his life to becoming a painter. That was in 1885. He had never been near an art school, and his diminutive pension would not stretch far enough to pay for instruction. So he set out, with enormous patience, to teach himself...
Nazi spokesmen last week announced the death from apoplexy of lean, athletic Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau, 57, Commander of Germany's Sixth Army in the Ukraine, who was so stiffly Prussian that his friends said he wore his monocle in bed, but who had often extolled the Nazi cause as a great opportunity for the German Army...