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...Warfare, 1935) by General Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsberger. The essence of the Eimannsberger thesis boils down to this: The tank is exclusively a weapon of large-scale strategic offensive, in no case of small-scale tactical attack, counterattack or defense. For defense against tanks, General von Eimannsberger devised a pattern of anti-tank guns in three rows-a six, twelve, six defense-covering a front about a mile and a half wide. Such a defense, he figured, would be able to knock out at least 54 tanks before being overcome itself...
...Every child has a unique, dynamic pattern of growth. A mother, aided by her pediatrician, must find this pattern rather than impose an artificial schedule on her baby. A wise mother should be able to sense the time when her child is ready to graduate to the cup, solid foods, long pants, football. She must never try to force him to do certain tasks at a certain age because the books say so. Most of a pediatrician's trouble, confessed the doctors last week, is not with children, but with neurotic, earnest parents...
...pattern is clear enough: editors, like most other Americans, want to see Hitler beaten but they don't like to think about the hardships of going to war. Curiously, from late May to early July-when the President shifted emphasis from aid-to-Britain to hemisphere defense-the press on both sides practically dropped the main issue...
...Sedgwick, edited Century, has himself contributed to most of the slick-paper magazines. Says he of his new job: "It doesn't dismay me at all to be working for a magazine that is 91 years old, and looks superficially as though it were built to an old pattern...
Concludes Mr. Dulles: "In its present form, the [Roosevelt-Churchill] Declaration seems to reflect primarily the conceptions of the old sovereignty system. It follows too closely the pattern of Versailles, without, however, any of the liberalizing international institutions which that treaty sought to bring into existence. . . . We are entitled to expect a bold approach to the problem of peace. It has been demonstrated, beyond doubt, that the old system of many disconnected sovereignties, each a law unto itself, inevitably breeds war. We must not keep humanity chained to such a wheel. Laying aside timidity, adding practicality to sentimentality, we must...