Foreign News: Brittle Strategist

Well poised Germans no longer take seriously that keen but brittle strategist, General Erich Ludendorff. Long of since he has Hindenburg"— if ceased to he be ever "the was — brains but not until last week did he dare to flout openly the great Feldmarschall who is President of the Republic.

Before a super-nationalist rally at Berlin, General Ludendorff warmed up by declaring that the Jews, the Jesuits and the Freemasons "robbed Germany of certain victory during the World War." Then, as his poise snapped, he shouted: "Even today the supernational [Allied] powers...

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