Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London Telegraph's L. G. S. Payne, or London Times's Liddell Hart, are more inclined than the military "professionals" of the war departments to weigh intangible factors-and to be skeptical of physical achievements such as Germany's vaunted rearmament. Free lances argue that the men...
The ability to foresee, to outguess, to improvise, to make the best of what you have, is absolutely necessary to the successful military "scientist." The Allies almost lost the World War because Britain's Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war...
The pleasant surprise was the Cuban section. Its 40 items included the tenderest painting in the exhibition, a picture of three lost-looking children done in white, grey and sepia by a young artist named Fidelio Ponce de Leon,* and the most effective sculpture, a torqued Figure (see cut, p...
After the Titanic catastrophe, eleven shocked maritime nations* held a conference in London which resulted in the creation of the International Derelict Destruction, Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service. They agreed to pay dues on a basis of respective tonnage, asked the U. S. to manage the Ice Patrol. Now...
La Gazzetta del Popolo of Turin reported last week that a battalion of the French infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Dupont, had deserted to Switzerland because the men were perturbed by the international situation. Beneath this story in very small type, La Gazzetta added: