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...blaring and flags fluttering, Realmleader Hitler, Air Minister Göring and other Nazi bigwigs last week attended the 125th anniversary of General von Scharnhorst's War Academy. With them stood a hard-working officer who for years has been known to the Press as "Chief of the Troop Office." His name was General Ludwig Beck. In the first brief account of the ceremonies an official press release casually gave him his real title-"Chief of the General Staff." Stepping to the rostrum, Chief of Staff Beck told how it had been done...
...summer of 1920 an examination was held for the first pupils, who were to act as assistants to the higher troop command. On Oct. 1, training began, fixed at two years. On Oct. 1, 1923 a third year at the Reichswehr Ministry was added. From Oct. 1, 1932 courses for leadership assistants were combined in 'officers' courses in Berlin. Since May 1, 1935 these courses again have borne the name 'War Academy.' With them, even in externals, the old example has been reincarnated, and the new army possesses that important training ground for leadership to which...
...could not have bread they might have to eat cake and Italians may have to wear natural silk, of which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow up in Europe. We can perhaps hold out longer than other peoples who have little to go on because, although the Almighty gave Italy little, He provided plenty of sunshine...
Chief news source from the Italian side is General Staff Headquarters at Asmara, Eritrea. Last week Italian troop movements from the north were well covered, but no U. S. correspondent ventured into the malarial jungles through which Italian armies were closing in on Ethiopia from the south and east...
...naive delight over an Occidental War was perfectly natural. The World War was, to Japan alone among major belligerents, just one huge slice of cake. On the fighting side, Japan had scant trouble taking Germany's Chinese port of Kiao-chiao and Pacific islands, supplied some destroyers for troop convoys in the Mediterranean. Japan's total War dead: 300 men, mostly from illness. In money, Japan lent her Allies only 618,000.000 yen ($308,000.000). Britain repaid her share of this in 1919 to Japan out of monies borrowed from the U. S. The rest has since been...