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Wherever, whenever it came, it must be a surprise. "Surprise," wrote Adolf Hitler's theorist Colonel Hermann Foertsch, "can be effected by deception of the opponent either in time or in direction." Plans must be kept dark as doom. Frederick the Great, who knew his strategy, used to say: "If I thought my coat knew my plans, I would take it off and burn...
...with the big, hard hands of farmers used to be rare around the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Henry Wallace, whose hands are more used to boomerangs than to ploughs, brought many a theorist into the Department after he became Secretary of Agriculture in 1933. But he also brought many more with honestly calloused palms...
...economy better with high-efficiency, high-capacity machinery run part of the time, than they would by running low-capacity, inefficient machinery more of the time. Most estimates of the "waste" caused by idle capital equipment measure a capitalist economy with a socialist yardstick. To liberal-capitalist Theorist Rockefeller, the goal to strike for, under any form of government, is optimum production achieved at minimum cost...
...Rise of American Civilization, Beard has already jabbed at Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, the 19th-Century theorist of naval power. He here repeats the performance at greater length, with more savage relish. The navy man's Moses, it appears, was a thoroughly incompetent historian, his imperialist strategy "the rationalized war passion of a frustrated swivel-chair officer who had no stomach for the hard work of navigation and fighting." As for Roosevelt I, whose election was a "tragedy of politics," and Secretary of State John Hay, who "as Lincoln's secretary had become a treasure of the Republican...
Last year Cornell University's brilliant, Alsatian-born atomic theorist, Professor Hans Albrecht Bethe, trotted out a plausible explanation of how the sun converts hydrogen into radiant energy, and so keeps on shining (TIME, Feb. 27, 1939). At temperatures above 15,000,000° C. (the sun's internal temperature is calculated at 20,000,000° C.), Dr. Bethe found that hydrogen atoms would attack carbon. The carbon would be transmitted into other forms, but after a series of six separate atomic conversions, it would reappear, while hydrogen atoms (of which the sun has enough to last...