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Excerpt from Essays, Speeches, and Memoirs, Vol. 2 of 2: Of Field-Marshal Count Helmuth Von Moltke
The energy which Moltke displayed when advocating the improvement of the standing defences of the country and its defensive power was equalled by the fervent zeal with which he supported all measures, even of comparatively narrow scope, which had the welfare of the army in view. We note especially his utterances regarding punishments by arrest, barracks and officers' mess establishments, commissariat duties in peace and war, the food supply of the German army of occupation in France, and the use to which the savings hereby effected should be put. He demanded, with much em phasis, an improvement in the position of officers as regards pension, and he resisted with great energy, as well as with success, the proposal to cancel the exemption of officers from local taxation. In all cases he argued from the standpoint of justice, and it was chie?y owing to his efforts that an understanding favour able to the general interests of the army was finally arrived at in Parliament.
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