Assertion: beck | /r/CapableOf | try to deter hitler
Facets:
value: as chief of the general staff
type: MANNER
value: very early
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Beck tried very early—as Chief of the General Staff—to deter Hitler from using the grievances of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia, the population of which was mostly ethnic-German, as an excuse for war against the latter state in 1938.