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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today the U. S. Army has no idea where it will have to fight next, but its job is to be ready whatever the spot. Purely on the laws of political probability the army's present guesses rate future wars in the following order of likelihood: 1) civil uprisings on the U. S. mainland- some sort of trouble in the social order; 2) war in South America in case fascist economic penetration rubs the U. S. past endurance; 3) war in Europe or Asia for any reason; 4) least likely of all, invasion of the U. S. mainland...
...Governor of Kansas and ex-State Commander of the Legion. He was in the War Department partly because he was an Original Roosevelt Man in 1932, partly because the Legion had by then taken unofficial title to the job of Assistant Secretaryship. If the White House did not rate Mr. Woodring a first-class administrator, the army in 1933 was in the doldrums anyway, was no great administrative problem. Even when Harry Woodring became involved in a messy procurement scandal with Army Goods Dealer Joseph Silverman Jr., the White House allowed him to weather it. Not until Secretary...
Associated Pressman James D. White cabled that he had a "ringside seat" from which he watched one of the concluding Soviet bombardments: "It was warfare in dead earnest. . . . Six-inch projectiles came over at the rate of at least six a minute. Today's cannonade removed all doubt in the minds of observers as to the accuracy of Soviet artillery. Invariably one or two sighting shots were followed by a series of direct hits. . . . At the foot of Changku-feng Hill a village blazed fiercely. Hundreds of shells had scored direct hits...
According to Japanese accounts the Red Army never charged with the bayonet. After a heavy barrage the Russian infantry advanced supported by tanks, threw hand grenades from a distance of a few yards, then fled. At any rate, by armistice hour Soviet attacks had not dislodged the Japanese from Changkufeng, although the hill was deeply pitted with craters made by Russian shells...
Many physicians in Munich received orders to leave their private practice and report for "50 days' service" with the army medical corps, each doctor to bring with him food for two days and two changes of linen. The army bought foodstuffs at such a rate that private German grocers reported they could not get many staples. A luxury which disappeared almost at once was seltzer water, in great demand by the army to quench officers' thirst in the heat of August...