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Adolf Hitler once said: "Generals have sterile minds. . . . They remain encrusted in their professional technique. . . . They want to go on comporting themselves as medieval knights. ... I don't want knights." But this New Year the Oberste Befehlshaber had reason to reflect that he was surrounded by knights. It was an uneasy season...
Because the success of the next push-to Dérna or Bengazi-will directly reflect Ritchie's ability, it will be the high spot of his career, and of the offensive. Neil Ritchie is only 44. If only because of his youth, he may do better than Cunningham, who is ten years his senior. But his career, from subaltern in the Black Watch at 17 to Major General at 43, has been almost too formal to promise the flashes of unorthodoxy which usually herald great commanders...
Therefore, I should like to point out that the anecdotes printed were merely extreme instances, indicating the difficulties encountered in doing business in South America. But these anecdotes certainly did not reflect the appreciation that I have for the cordial and astute qualities which I met with most often...
...could anyone explain the wave of fanaticism. Since going juramentado has lost some of its religious significance and is now sometimes sheer homicidal mania, it could have been just the excitement of the Moro harvest festivals. Or the out breaks might reflect Moro resentment against conscription or against the despised, diminutive, Christian Filipinos' (with whom the Moros have fought for centuries) settling and trying to govern in Moro territory...
...will also adopt new policy forms, mortality tables which better reflect the declining death rate, and a reserve interest rate of 2¾%. Previous reserve rate-the maximum expected investment return which is an important factor in computing cash values and premium costs...