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Like his father he is very dark. His face is drawn, almost haggard. Well it might be; for he has been roughly handled of late. He was born in the days before the war???more than 30 years ago? when his father was no one in particular. He lived to see his father become the most powerful figure in Germany. He lived to see his father die less than a year and a half ago. (TIME Apr. 21, 1924). Today Dr. Edmund Hugo Stinnes, eldest son of Hugo, looks out from under his father's black brows, seeing the future...
...STUDY OF WAR???Admiral Sir Reginald Custance ? Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). We detect in this book a "sea dog" barking at civilian interference in the conduct of naval affairs. (The book is more a study of naval than military warfare.) It is almost a direct protest against the confusion which the civilian injects into the military aims of warfare...
...NAVAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR???Captain Thomas G. Frothingham, U. S. R.?Harvard University Press (2 vols., $3.75 each). With the exception of the British official naval history and some similar works of equal optimism, there are few books dealing competently with naval operations. The present volumes, which go as far as the "unrestricted U-boat warfare" phase of the naval war, deal dispassionately, convincingly, fairly and thoroughly with the naval operations of the War. The most important, although not necessarily the most interesting, part of these books is the chapters in Volume II dealing with the Battle...
Thus spoke War's hypothecator, pledging the nation's resources, in case of need, to war???preparing peaceful plans for future emergencies, enlisting scientists?peaceful scientists?in the interests of national defense. It was perhaps one of the last things one would have expected 25 years ago of the tall, good-looking, young Missouri tennis- player, who, then at Harvard, offered the trophy afterwards to become famous as the Davis Cup, who for two years defended it in person, who sailed boats, played polo, who became Park Commissioner of St. Louis and started the Municipal Athletic League. His turn towards...
...When the war broke out?the Civil War???Walter Newman Haldeman was publishing the Louisville Journal and had a son, William Birch, but 14 years of age. The Journal was suppressed because of its Southern sympathies and some two years later the son ran away from Forest's Academy to enlist in the 9th Kentucky Infantry, the famous Orphan Brigade (Confederate). He fought at Chickamauga and was wounded. Then he shipped as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. But gunboat service was not exciting enough for him. He went back to his old company and finished the war with...