Word: strength
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of who fired the first shot on the Western Front. The Germans had sworn it would not be they. Their basic strategy was to hold their West Wall (Siegfried or Limes Line) from the Ruhr to the Alps. Allied strategy was to bring such pressure as would sap strength from the German drive into Poland. General understanding was that the French would conduct all operations by land, with the infantry reinforced at first only by a few mechanized British divisions. The British would take the lead...
...thrilled his listeners with great rolling periods like this: "What they [Germany's allies] do not see or realize is the capacity of the ancient and mighty nations against whom Germany is warring to endure adversity, to put up with disappointment and mismanagement, to recreate and renew their strength, to toil on with boundless obstinacy through boundless suffering to the achievement of the greatest cause for which men have ever fought...
...away the guarantee of life, law and liberty." To associate British democracy with Nazi methods meant the destruction of all that the Empire ever meant: "That power which burns Christian ethics, which cheers its onward progress with barbarous paganism, which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest, which derives strength and pleasure from perverted persecution and uses the threat of murderous force-that power cannot ever be a trusted friend of British democracy...
...which the human eye can distinguish. [They form] social hierarchies. One fish can strike a second fish without being struck in return, and the second has the same right of 'passing the blow' to a third individual. These . . . 'pecking orders' owe their existence not to strength but to psychic factors, such as the period of residence in an area. . . . Many fish devote most of their energies to trying to change their social status...
Truly international, the Army uses native-born recruits whenever possible. Another source of Army strength, which shocked the Victorians, is that women have absolute parity of privilege, position and dignity. Militant is the Army's terminology. A convert is a "prisoner of war," a service "company meeting," a Salvationist's death "promotion to Glory...