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As professor and later as commandant of the Ecole de Guerre, from its high pulpit he taught the army's teachers his theories of military strategy. By books, by word of mouth he popularized the doctrine of Attack, until it became dogma to the French. "This theory, which really...
Grim, far-sighted Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili. known from Leningrad to Cape Horn as Stalin, last week told Russia what to do for the next five years. Dictator Stalin may change his mind, but barring a national catastrophe or acts of God (in whom he does not believe; Russia will do...
Recent events have tended to stiffen the hostility of the country toward foreign entanglements of any kind. At the same time there is a growing consciousness that some sort of cooperation between nations is needed in the current economic difficulties. Of all the candidates now in the field, Mr. Baker...
To make them tough, Japanese wrestlers are trained from the cradle, fed on underdone beefsteak when normal children are still milk-bibbing. They grow to enormous size, sometimes are seven feet tall, weigh 400 Ib. Like Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking...
Every facet of this problem of university education has been repeatedly examined under the searchlight of conflicting opinions, but an essential question is worth asking again. Is not the devotion to non-intellectual work for able men a short-sighted procedure, both for themselves and for the community?