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...military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics), who had met Yamashita in Japan in 1908 and now befriended him, publicly accoladed the Japanese as "the Prussians of the East," and sent Yamashita home fat with admiration for German militarism...
...powers of characterization, on his Swiftian moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be. But on those intricate obscurities which put off most plain readers, and on Joyce as a technician and theorist, he has written the best guidebook and the most brilliant criticism to date...
Colonel Henry D. Jay, professor of Military Science and Tactics since September 1939, has received orders, effective December 15, transferring him to Jacksonville, Florida. He will probably be relieved by Colonel Phillips Hayes, noted theorist on Field Artillery tactics. Orders confirming this appointment, however, have not yet been received...
...practical man rather than a theorist, Peck laid down no rules, treated his Manhattan pupils as individuals, insisted only that they work as hard as serious adults. He sent them clambering over Manhattan docks and rooftops, told them to draw and paint what they saw, criticized their results with adult solemnity. When one artist insisted on signing each of his landscapes "An Original by Myerson" in large letters, Teacher Peck didn't even crack a smile...
...incredible stupidity and conservatism of Great Britain's Imperial General Staff very nearly lost World War II before it ever began. So says Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, military theorist whose misinterpreted belief in the virtue of defensive fighting has put him under a cloud, but whose military dope is still among the best in Britain. Last week a new Liddell Hart book*; reached the U. S., and one of its chapters, called "Wasted Brains," exposes that stupidity in all its lurid details...