Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe . Double Monoplane. Albatross Hydro and Aeroplane THE ARMr 55 fessor—anti-military, however, to the core—who had nocontradiction to offer. I should have marked both ofthese great people zero for flat ignorance of the subjecthad I had them in a class. The German officer, I grant,may occasionally seem as idle and as frivolous as the sonof a new American millionaire: the only differencewould be that the American conceals his idleness undera show of industriousness, sending t
Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe . Double Monoplane. Albatross Hydro and Aeroplane THE ARMr 55 fessor—anti-military, however, to the core—who had nocontradiction to offer. I should have marked both ofthese great people zero for flat ignorance of the subjecthad I had them in a class. The German officer, I grant,may occasionally seem as idle and as frivolous as the sonof a new American millionaire: the only differencewould be that the American conceals his idleness undera show of industriousness, sending telegrams when hehas nothing else to do, while the German conceals thefact that he has been up since four in the morning train-ing a mass of raw recruits, that he has spent severalhours at the Kriegsakademie studying languages, geog-raphy, political economy and the like and that he has asa permanent job some important problem in tactics towork out. Those who know the methods of the Prussiangovernment could never accuse it of giving its employeestoo little work. A list is kept of all officers in whichtheir industry, their interest in t
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