OLD ENEMIES
Th Unied States Secretary of State, Mr. H. L. Stimson, discovered o i his re cent visit to Berlin that he and Chancellor Bruening had fought opposite each other at Bourlon Wood, near Gambrai, in 1917, when Dr. Bruening commanded a machine-gun battalion and Colonel Stimson was with a unit of American engineers attached to the British Army, says the' New York Times.” The two Ministers are said to have talked long and often of their wartime adventures, and Colonel Stimson used them as a text for a little sermon to the German statesmen. The attitude of the German statesmen in recent months, he feels, has been that of a machinegun battalion commander who hears that the platoon on his right had been annihilated and that on his left captured, and who reveals the whole desperate story to his men in the heat of battle. The task for the German statesmen, he believes, is to arouse their ” troops” to fight all the harder and win. ___________
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 229, 28 September 1931, Page 5
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