Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nationwide broadcast tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy said: "As soldier and as Premier ... I am passing through the saddest moment of my life, for I am fulfilling a most painful duty, a duty which for me is worse than death. . . . We were confronted with a choice between desperate and hopeless defense, which would have meant the sacrifice of our whole younger generation, their children and their wives, and acceptance of the conditions imposed on us under pressure and without war, which in their mercilessness are unexampled in history. There are smaller states than ours that lead healthy existences...
...more amenable than John O'Connor would be the next man in line by seniority: Chicago's diligent old Adolph J. Sabath. But Mr. Sabath, 72, is not forceful. Gossip in Washington last week was that he might be asked, as a good New Deal soldier, to step aside and let a stronger man take the great Rules chair -perhaps a veteran drafted from some other committee like California's Lea (Interstate & Foreign Commerce), New York's Cullen (No. 2 on Ways & Means, Tammany manager in the House, but tractable), or Virginia's Drewry (Democratic...
...that he can be released from his promise. But here stands man against man. There is Benes-here am I. Only one of us can win. We are entirely different. During the war he wandered about the world outside the danger zone, while I did my duty as a soldier - and again today I AM THE FIRST SOLDIER OF MY PEOPLE! ... I COULD NEVER BE REPROACHED WITH BEING A COWARD. . . . THE GERMAN NATION IS WITH ME, AND ITS WILL IS MY COMMAND. . . . ONE COMMON WILL IS STRONGER THAN PRIVATION AND DANGER AND WILL CONQUER BOTH...
...hrer passionately insisted that last May the President of Czechoslovakia "lied" in saying Germany had mobilized, making this his reason for a Czech mobilization. The fact that last week Germany was fully mobilized and Czechoslovakia had not mobilized, Orator Hitler ignored, shouting: "Not a single German soldier was mobilized in May! . . . That lie was invented to serve the criminal purposes of one State-Czechoslovakia, which was then ready to plunge the world into war. . . . I declare that the German Government will not tolerate such action for a second time...
Like old Captain Joshua Slocum almost 40 years before him, like salty Harry Pidgeon, who followed Herman Melville's Typee course, like seagoing Soldier-Tennist Alain Gerbault-cockle-shell Magellans all-Dwight Long had set his sails to go round the world. He had $200 cash, a guarantee of $25 a month for dispatches to the Seattle Star, and a companion who had studied spherical trigonometry and could qualify as a navigator. At Honolulu they parted. There Veteran Harry Pidgeon took Long out on the sea one Sunday afternoon, taught him how to plot his own course. In Hawaii...