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Readers recalled the old Prussian cere mony of offering a defeated fellow officer a cigaret, a revolver, one bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tradition | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bazaine and Retain | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stories of Sieges | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KOHN CALLS ENFORCED LAW BETWEEN NATIONS 'THE ALTERNATIVE TO CHAOS' | 3/31/1943 | See Source »

...Australia, 62-year-old Lieut. General Walter Krueger assumed command of the newly created Sixth Army under 63-year-old General Douglas MacArthur. Prussian-born General Krueger, whose passion is military strategy, boosted his reputation in the 1941 maneuvers when his Third Army (whose command he relinquished recently) roundly trounced Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army. His chief of staff at that time: Dwight Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: War Horses to the Front | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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