Word: reichswehr
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Greatest single Polish worry is the fear that some day the Reichswehr and the Red Army will choose Poland as a battlefield (see map, p. 17). For Poland a Russo-German war would be an unmitigated tragedy, but almost as ominous would be a real Russo-German friendship. Not easily forgotten by Poles is the fact that a friendly Prussia, Russia and Austria helped themselves to generous slices of Poland in 1772 and 1793, swallowed the country completely in 1795-96. Although Napoleon briefly resuscitated the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, the country did not regain real independence until after...
...promptly "mediated" the differences. Not only does Poland run its show at home with brutal efficiency, but it has an Army that would fight at the drop of a hat, and that gives Germany something else to think about. The Polish Army would now be no match for the Reichswehr, but at least it could rob Führer Hitler of another of his bloodless conquests. Moreover, Poland has an air force of 1,500 planes, and Poles are fond of saying that while Berlin is only 80 miles from the Polish border, Warsaw is 170 from West Prussia...
Died. Lieut. General Otto von Lossow, 70, onetime Bavarian Reichswehr commander, who once called Hitler a "swashbuckling little ward politician" and suppressed the Munich Beer Hall putsch (1923); in Munich...
...China's Central Government. Ousting his Russian military advisers in 1927, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek first bought the services of Lieut.-General George Wetzell, who was followed by General von Falkenhausen. For a brief period General Hans von Seeckt, former commander of the German Republic's Reichswehr, served as a super-adviser. Under German advice, Prussian discipline-including the goosestep-was introduced into Chinese crack divisions. Most important to Germany was the fact that the mission persuaded China to buy German military equipment...
Last week, while 14 Reichswehr generals were ousted, after protesting among other things Rosenberg's Wagnerian neo-paganism (see p. 18), Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House opened its annual Wagner cycle. Not even in Wagner-worshipping Germany will these operas (Tannhäuser, Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle), be more reverently, painstakingly and expertly performed. But where the all-conquering Siegfried represents Der Fiihrer to every starry-eyed German backfisch, he will remain for U. S. operagoers a poetic figure of ancient and barbarous legend...