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...coup, more dramatic than his cross-country flight in 1932 to address the Chicago Convention which first named him for the Presidency-Franklin Roosevelt returned. He returned not to wave his hat to a cheering crowd, but to face his White House press corps -including the men who usually defend him from all critics and laugh at his humor-this time hopping...
Under the Tukhachevsky system, an Army corps (three divisions), called to defend a given sector, would move up to the enemy on a front only about 20 miles wide-but about 80 miles deep. It would then dispose itself not in lines, but in densely packed islands. Nearest the enemy the islands would be minuscule: just isolated machine-gun nests. Farther back the islands would grow into larger machine-gun clusters, field-gun emplacements, antitank batteries, then larger pools comprising whole battalions and companies, then huge field fortresses (built by sappers in from two to five days) surrounded by smaller...
...introduced, the bill was a muddled compromise with which Henderson himself was privately dissatisfied. And he had to defend it against attacks which had nothing to do with the issue...
...Dutch, though now armed, could not defend New Guinea or Celebes; the Japanese might also take some smaller island such as Bali with its classically breasted maidens. But the three key islands, Borneo, Sumatra and Java, were tough porcupines to grab. Granted Japan's estimated 2,000,000 tons of available shipping could transport between 100,000 and 200,000 men, with their equipment, across 2.800 miles of the China Sea, a landing on Borneo might be successful. But the oil wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need...
Such words did not come from the whole Army by any means. Nor did they mean that the speakers were unwilling to defend their country. But they did mean that soldiers were exercising something more than their immemorial right to grouse. Those among them who like to talk big spoke darkly of wholesale desertions when their year was up. In one National Guard division, once reputed for its high morale, soldiers carried out a species of "V" campaign: they chalked "Ohio" on latrine walls and artillery pieces. "Ohio" meant "Over the Hill in October" (when the division's year...