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Against the moderates stand the diehard and potent ultranationalists. In stormy sessions, men like General Kazimierz Sosnkowski have taken an adamant stand against Russia, have made their will prevail. All Poles have long memories of Poland's repression at foreign hands-Russian as well as Prussian and Austrian. But the Kremlin's long memory has not forgotten that General Sosnkowski and his followers are the remnant of the old anti-Soviet regime. Once led by Marshal Pilsudski, they had dreamt of a Poland reaching from the Baltic to the Black Sea, had refused the Curzon Line...
...autonomy. Two days later Kiev announced appointment of a Commissar of Foreign Affairs for the Ukraine: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk, husband of Polish-born Wanda Wasilewska (the leader of the Union of Polish Patriots), firm believer in close harmony among Ukrainians, Czechs and Poles to block revival of Prussian militarism, well-trained disciple of the Molotov method...
Looking back over his own 33 Army years, the nation's almost-forgotten soldier was content last week that the U.S. had finally come to recognize the importance of the Chief of Staff's job ("the old Prussian military 'brain trust' system"). Looking ahead, he had some tart advice for the American people...
...mind and will power. By a subterfuge, the caste escaped the ignominy of defeat in World War I ("We were stabbed in the back," the Junkers said). But now no subterfuge would help. For the Allied intent was clear: "The twin roots of all our evils-Nazi tyranny and Prussian militarism-must be extirpated. Until this is achieved there are no sacrifices that we will not make, no length in violence to which we will...
Junker's Life. In this dark hour of defeat by the despised Slav, Fritz Erich von Manstein must have longed to shut his eyes to the dreary, hostile scene and think of friendly Ostelbien: of the small estate of impoverished Prussian Artillery General von Lewinski, whose tenth child he was; of the Castle of Colonel Baron Georg von Manstein, who adopted Erich von Lewinski when his father died...