Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...survey, is bolstered by false and prejudiced reasoning. Those who choose military training or submit to it can hardly be its most open-minded judges. If the principle of giving military instruction in liberal arts colleges is sound, that principle should be extended. If training to become a soldier is college education, then training to become any sort of uniformed public servant is college education, and courses in Letter Carrying, Fire Fighting, Dog Catching, and Street Cleaning, all have their proper place in the curriculum...
...China has great man power available with a total of 2,500,000 men under arms in military formations at the moment. Although China has all the instruments of modern warfare, tanks, air guns, and airplanes they have never been knit into the Chinese military fabric. The individual Chinese soldier is very easily disciplined and because his wants are so small is able to stand great privation...
Long before Richelieu wound his armies through the Valtelline or Champaigne thrashed his first brush across a canvass an equally famous man cast his shadow on the history of England. Becket was a soldier who became the greatest archbishop of his time and faced the boldest king that England knew. And for all this he died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson...
...ward off suicidal despair Spengler recommends the psychological attitude of the Roman soldier who died at his post in Pompeii. When the volcano under civilization explodes, and the burning dust begins to descend, the more honorable Spenglerian carnivores will take it standing, polish up their buttons as the lava rises. With its men all dead but its honorable buttons bright, Western civilization can then rest forever on its yews...
MEMOIRS OF A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE-General Rafael de Nogales-Harrison Smith...