Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soldier Adolf Hitler traveled by plane, for the first time in more than a year, to address 250,000 War veterans at Kassel. He assured his former comrades that they had waged in 1914-18 a valiant war, only to be betrayed at Versailles by a spineless Government. To the Führer the World War was caused by British and French ambitions to destroy Germany, "the same objectives that animate the encirclement politicians of today." But Germany, he added, will never be sold down the river again, for "I have seen to it that anyone who has anything...
...French soldier is apt to look sloppy in the ranks but the army is well grounded in the essentials and its men are tough individual fighters, particularly on the defensive. In training the rank and file, the French forget fancier phases of close-order drill, concentrate on teaching men how to shoot. Majority of French ordnance is old; but, like a skilled automobile mechanic with a battered jalopy, French marksmen get the most out of 1914 Hotchkisses, 1897-model Seventy-fives. The French are short on good anti-tank guns, way behind in the air (nationalization of the aircraft industry...
Corporal Hino's main point: war is uncomfortable. Even a dictatorship cannot keep this cold and muddy fact a secret, with 10,000 soldiers writing home every week. Smart Japanese know it is better to have the fact heroically stated by a soldier who is doing his bit, especially when he also reports his comrades begging their officers to forgive them for getting wounded, dying with a shout of "May our Emperor live a thousand years!" They may do these things better in Moscow and Berlin, but Japan is catching up with the West...
...want to be courteous to me, won't you, when you go to bed at night, just say a prayer for me, as I go forth as a good Christian soldier to heal our wounds...
...more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels, no go jd poetry." Long ago, Hitler told Germans to "think with their blood," but so far "blood-thinking" has produced almost no good...