Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...talked plain to some think ing laymen when General Sherman Miles confessed that in the past six weeks bright military minds had painfully shed many a long-held preconception, proceeded to analyze the Battle of Flanders and emerged with a big-time military man's explanation of the success of Germany's modern war machine - and what could be done about it. Said the U. S. Army's Assistant Chief of Staff (G2 - Intelligence) and son of the late, great Nelson A. Miles: "In all military history, the balance be tween the defense and the offense...
...must have a better offense. And a better offense means superiority of mobile force and superiority in training. We draw a somewhat false lesson when we say that this is the age of mechanized war. The machine does not think; even superiority in number of weapons promises no success unless they are handled by trained brains...
More significant, even, than propaganda are Nazi influences on the military classes and on business interests. German military prestige with the Brazilian Army grows with each new success in Europe. Military missions go back & forth between Rio and Berlin; Berlin courts Army, Navy and Air Corps heads with assiduity. Last April. War Minister Dutra and Chief of Staff Góes Monteiro were given Germany's highest decoration awarded to foreigners, the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, and officers down to the rank of colonel were decorated. In a country with 75% illiteracy...
...Virgil Kinney Hancock, noted Seattle obstetrician, began to try irradiation on hopeless streptococcic and staphylococcic bloodstream infections, with great success. Several years later, he was followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...
...easy German success in seizing all other important Norwegian ports was aided...