Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nigsberg two months ago Chancellor Hitler thundered that "there will be no more shooting against German racial comrades along the German borders." Since then Czechoslovakians have been afraid that some Czech frontier guard, policeman or soldier would lose his head and kill one of the little nation's 3,200,000 Sudeten Germans who inhabit the frontier strip along the 1,300-mile Czech-German border. One night last week, with the blatant Nazi sub-minority of the Sudeten German Minority indulging in a terroristic and propaganda campaign in preparation for municipal elections to be held at week...
...Tolstoy's War and Peace, war is essentially a moral struggle. From top to bottom of the army, each individual soldier is shown making his choice, determined by his sense of right & wrong, in moments of crisis. But in most World War novels, soldiers are shown caught in a vast impersonal military machine that operates blindly, automatically, uninfluenced by their individual actions. Simple privates or intellectual officers, they are alike in their helplessness and confusion: the machine of which they are part continues to operate regardless of their heroism or cowardice, their strength or weakness, their life or death...
...scope of that plan was suggested in The Case of Sergeant Grischa. A goodhearted, simple Russian soldier, Grischa escaped from a German prison camp, hid in the woods, took the clothes and identity of a dead German deserter. He was caught and sentenced to be shot for desertion. Grischa proved his identity, was nevertheless ordered shot in his false identity as a German deserter. Gradually, as one soldier after another was shocked at the injustice, his case became the centre of a major conflict. A sergeant tried to save him, then a lieutenant, finally a general. They compromised their army...
Evidently taking a liking to the new spectrum yellow ball used for the first time on Soldier Field, Northeastern pounded out 18 base-knocks yesterday afternoon to best the Crimson nine...
...called, was worn by Adolf Hitler, emerging on the first morning of his visit, after having received Benito Mussolini for a half-hour conference at the King's Palace. Der Fuhrer laid a wreath at the Pantheon (royal tombs), another at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a third at the Fascist Altar on the Capitoline Hill. Lunch was at the King's Palace, followed by a go-minute conference in Il Duce's office, and then the two Dictators drove to Rome's airport. On one side of this half-mile-square field naval cadets...