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...First Lieutenant in the "extremely aristocratic army of Franz Josef." Requirements were high school diploma, successful completion of officers' training school, about 20 months in the front. But Dollfuss earned distinction by winning the "Verdienstkreuz," Cross of Merit, a decoration given to subalterns for outstanding deeds of valor only. . . . As an Austrian, I had yet to hear of an Austrian's breakfast consisting, of all things, "of a bowl of potato soup with whipped cream." If Kanzler Dollfuss prefers this kind of morning repast, his taste is unique and, therefore, news. But is TIME sure of its potatoes...
...husband in whom discreet laziness outweighs valor sees with resignation that his giddy wife is about to be seduced. Unable to do anything about it, he resumes his interrupted...
Finland's war was a savage, desperate, last-ditch fight in 1919 to hurl Russian Bolsheviks back from her beloved lakes. Finnish valor perhaps saved pink & socialist Scandinavia from going red. Exhausted though victorious, Finns obtained from the U. S. Congress credits for grain and other foodstuffs, ran $8,281,900 into debt. Three years later when President Harding offered to fund all Europe's War debt on the basis of '"capacity to pay''-payments to be made over 62 years-Finland was the first state to send a delegation which signed on Washington...
...Japanese goal, announced as an incentive, to Japanese valor by the General Staff, had been to capture Chengteh. the capital of Jehol, by March 10-anniversary of the capture of Mukden during the Russo-Japanese War which cost 97,000 Russian lives, 45,000 Japanese. Actually last week Jehol fell March 4. The relay race had been won in eleven days by Japanese brigades which advanced further than from Portland. Me. to Manhattan, sprinting more than 50 mi. on each of the last three days-about as fast as any modern army can climb mountain passes in the teeth...
...Hindenburg became the savior of Germany in November 1914 due to the valor of Litzmann's brigade at Lodz - my brigade!" cried Speaker Litzmann. "That battle won Hindenburg his Field Marshal's baton. Today, Meine Hcrren, something more important than a baton is at stake...