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Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1933, Page 4

The part which the professors are to play in making Germany martial is

indicated by a little book, “Wehrwissenscraft” ‘(Military Science), by Professor Kwald Ban sc, of Brunswick Technical High School, writes the Berlin correspondent of the Times. The author is one- of the men appointed to chairs of military science at the German universititos in recent months, and it is reasonable to judge their functions and methods by his handbook. The press was instructed not to report such appointments. One of the first of the military scientists was General Wolfgang Nuff, who was appointed to the Chair of Miltary Science at Tubingen University last autumn, but subsequently restored to the Reiohswehr. A few weeks'ago a- 'Society for Military Policy and Military Science was founded in Berlin. The starting point of the book is that war is inevitable and certain and that it is imperative to know as much about it and to be .as efficient as it is possible. This is a n honest and arguable view which has been accepted in their inward mind by many men in Germany, and they also accept the principle that precautions cannot be taken too soon. Professor Bouse argues that the mind of the nation, from childhood on, much he impregnated and familiarised with the idea of war. War is either the aim of all policy or the instrument to which p-oliev resigns itself in the moment of failure. His book is not a learned dissertation on the art of war as practised by the soldier; but rather a child’s nil Lie to war, intended to direct into military - channels the minds of |r?eor>le whose normal PCicitpation is not that of arms, but whose existence is ultimately conditioned by the inevitability of war.