Word: teutonic
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...German High Command has stated on many previous occasions that it would accept battle only north of Rome at a place chosen by it. . . .' Napoleon Bonaparte, who knew the weaknesses of divided command as well as anyone in history, once said: Give me allies to fight against. Though Teuton militarists admire Napoleon very much, there was no comfort in his dictum for the Germans who faced Alexander. In Italy, Alexander was certainly commanding allies, but in Egypt he had successfully managed an even more polyglot and rainbow-hued aggregation. He had learned how to get air, naval and ground...
Clench-jawed Lord Vansittart left his post as Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Office in 1941, the better to press his belief that salvation lies in taming the Teuton. Last week he reduced his formula to twelve points, published them in the New York Times Magazine...
Thine Own City. The great Byzantine general, Belisarius, more than once defended Rome against Teuton raids. To a barbarian chief he wrote a letter that is still timely...
...gentle kindergarten tones, British officials tried to tell this Nazi-headed Teuton some ABC's of Britain: that Britons, including titled Britons, contsidered Nazi Germany much more dangerous than Soviet Russia; that, even if the King and the Dukes desired peace with Nazi Germany, the British would never stand for it. But Hess could not believe that the "plutos" of a "pluto-democracy" would ally themselves with Communist Russia; that the leaders of a major world power like Great Britain would allow the public any say about national policy...
...Texas Co.'s picture of a fat, repulsive Teuton beside a text saying: "You've got a real, personal adversary to fight just as one of our marines who comes face to face with a Jap in the jungle. Your opponent is a 'man-in-the-street' in Berlin ... or Tokio. . . . It's you against him-your 'morale' against his. ['Morale'] means driving under 35 miles per hour-and not grousing about it. It means cutting out pleasure driving-with pleasure. It means saving fuel oil, living in a colder home...