Word: soldiers
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...typical brass hat (staff officer) was Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 119th Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force. Professional soldier descended from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade...
After the Armistice Soldier Crozier continued to work at his trade: with the Lithuanians against the Germans in the Baltic, against the Bolshevists in Poland. In 1920 he raised, then commanded, the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Next year he resigned on account of "condonation of crime in the Irish police...
...calls himself a "Free Democrat." but is seldom not ''regular." He is friendly with Republican leaders like Speaker Longworth, Congressmen Tilson and Snell, whom he humorously denounces. He is one of the last of the old-school Demo-cratic "statesmen." He voted for: Restrictive Immigration (1923), the Soldier Bonus (1924), Farm Relief (1927. 1928), the Farm Board (1929), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929). He voted against: the Tariff (1930), Tax Reduction (1924, 1926, 1928, 1929), the Navy's 15-cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929). His vote is Dry; there is no rumor of his drinking. Regarding...
...ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...
Died. Count Yasukata Oku, 84, Japanese soldier-patriarch, commander of the Emperor's 2nd Army in the Russo-Japa-nese War; after long illness of bronchial catarrh, at his home in Tokyo. Born a Commoner, his war services won him the titles of Baron and Count, First Class of the Order of the Golden Kite, Japan's Highest military award. He was made Field Marshal...