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...coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl von Moltke made the study of past wars a prime function of the Corps...
...control to Allied control. It is not only that the battle line has been advanced from the backyard of Honolulu to the frontyard of Tokyo. Even familiar places and bases have changed to an extent that leaves the returning correspondent openmouthed with unbelief. Not only have they grown; their function has changed...
...lawyer, commandant of the School for Military Government at Charlottesville, Va. and one of the chief U.S. occupation planners, will be one of General Clay's men Friday. Another: Lewis W. Douglas, onetime Arizona Congressman, Director of the Budget, and veteran of the early New Deal, who will function without an Army commission...
...story concerns an eager young cavalryman who rides three days and nights to warn the Czarina of a conspiracy against her life. Although her placid chancellor, whose only function seems to be to ferret out such plots and counter-plots, has this one well in hand, Catherine is glad to see the breathless soldier; she decides he will look good in a creamy white uniform and promotes him to the rank of general...
...complete break in the spinal cord paralyzes all the body from the break down. Doctors have found no way to splice the cord together or revive paralyzed organs. But they can condition some of the organs to function automatically, and they can train a man, with the help of steel braces such as Franklin Roosevelt wore, to stand on his paralyzed legs...