The Archive · 1930

German General on Future Armies

Zorich, Jan, 16.

General von Seeckt Commander-in-Chief of the German army after the Revolution, addressing officers of the Swiss army at their Club here,-expressed the opinion that the period of huge armies has gone for ever and that the future would see small armies composed of -professional soldiers with long -service terms.

These armies if supported by national militia recruited under a compulsory service law would answer: the changed conditions better than the vast armies, of: the World War.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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