Word: seeckt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tide of Republican scandal foamed up last week and engulfed Germany's greatest post-War soldier, Hans von Seeckt, "The Man with the Iron Monocle." He it is who has forged the new German military machine as General der Infanterie und Chef der Heeresleitung des Reichswehr. For months he has been the anathema of the Allied Council of Ambassadors which has demanded his resignation times without number. Until last week his rockfounded army prestige made his position unassailable...
Imperative Request. Not long ago the General, ripe with the prudence of 60, was appealed to by a charming woman whom German Monarchists still hail as their future Kaiserin. She, Princess Cecilia, onetime Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, onetime Crown Princess of Germany, asked little enough of old General von Seeckt. Surely the General would let her eldest son-her Wilhelm-enter the Ninth Company of Infantry in which the Hohenzollerns have always served...
General von Seeckt discovered by a tactful question that the once so exalted princess did not want her Wilhelm to enlist in the Army for twelve years, as all German soldiers must, under the terms of the Versailles Treaty. Princess Cecilia desired instead that the so gallant General should wink at the presence of her son with the Ninth Regiment during the Reichswehr's fall maneuvers (TIME, Sept. 27). Of course this could be arranged...
...fine, General von Seeckt having reflected, the eye behind his "iron monocle" figuratively winked...
Since General von Seeckt, the directing genius of the Reichswehr, has declared: "Trench warfare is out of date," the war games were featured chiefly by attempts to maneuvre at tremendous speed and as much under cover as possible. Several battalions were marched over hill and dale as far as 25 miles in one day, and the trucks representing tanks were driven at breakneck speed...