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...only one Italian drive. The Italian commander, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, used Foch's plan of "applying superior force at one point." From Fort Capuzzo in Libya (see map}), fortnight ago, started the Italian spearhead-a long thin line of light Fiat tanks in Indian file, three infantry regiments, including many blacks, a machine-gun battalion, a company equipped with mortars, an artillery regiment with heavier 10-centimetre Ansaldos and Vickers 15.2s, two sapper companies with well-drilling and road-building equipment, a communications company with water trucks, two mopping-up units, support from the Air Force, using...
...League has called for student participation in building a strong Army, apparently through some sort of extra-curricular military training. Perhaps it envisions another Harvard Regiment. It speaks of asking the War Department for "cooperation." Does it recognize the changed demands of modern mechanized armies, or is it asking, as a group of university-trained men, for special favors...
...Berry Wall owned his first race horse. He became a charter member of two jockey clubs, an amateur walking champion, a dead shot, a member of Manhattan's blue-blooded Old Seventh Regiment. Other members were various Schermerhorns, Belmonts, Harrimans, Rhinelanders, and Elliot Roosevelt, father of Eleanor. Says Wall: "I often wonder what he would think of his daughter and son-in-law now. Perhaps it is just as well not to wonder...
Long before the rest of the country was ready for war, undergraduate opinion at Harvard in the year 1916 had crystallized. Under the slogan Preparedness, the alma mater of tub-thumping Teddy Roosevelt rallied to arms, with a Harvard Regiment readily recruited and almost 1000 men receiving training at the outset...
...this "skeleton" technique which contrasts with the 1916-17 method, often described as "green officers for green men." At the time only a few officers to each regiment had had previous training, and they selected as junior officers likely-looking candidates from among the recruits. The results was slow and misnecessful training, contranting unfavorably with the results expected from the "skeleton" system...