Word: civilian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pilot Blagin was the result of a criminal lack of discipline which the Government and the Communist Party are removing from the air fleet with hot irons. . . . Regulations that hooligans of the air must not fly within a mile of military airplanes in flight should be applied to civilian aviation as well...
...Press, which grudgingly observed that the maneuvers were "a triumph for censorship." For lack of specific information, correspondents in Honolulu (those aboard the Fleet were virtually incommunicado) sent off tantalizing, imaginative tales about an expected "mass attack of 400 planes on the island of Oahu," revealing that the "entire civilian population of Hawaii" was being hypothetically "enlisted for defense" against a vague "attacking fleet." The Navy's secrecy reached its climax and the frenzy of the Press grew greatest when a force of 43 planes was dispatched on a 1,200 mi. mass flight from Hawaii supposedly to Midway...
...threat of such terrorists as Tony Guiteras two months ago when the general strike called by the radicals failed to spark the mass of Cuban workers (TIME, March 18). Until then, in all the 33 years of Cuba's terror-pocked history as a republic, no Cuban civilian had ever faced a firing squad. First to do so was one Jaime Greinstein, a Polish ne'er-do-well, who rhapsodied before he died one sunrise last month, "The skies of Cuba blush." Last week one Jose Costiello Fuentes, an ordinary bandit who had killed a lieutenant from ambush...
Afraid to trust loose-tongued civilian labor, the French General Staff last week had French and Senegalese soldiers at work completing la patrie's chain of super-secret frontier defense works among the forests of Alsace and the Moselle. Just as the new secrets seemed to be keeping nicely, pairs of Germans in light sport planes began coasting across the frontier, flying low over France's defenses and snapping photographs. When this had happened four times in the week, tempers snapped at the French General Staff and Germany received fair warning that any more peeping planes would...
...lives. The German dilemma was how to make the submarine campaign effective without embroiling the U. S Author Millis does not compare the morality of the blockade with that of the submarine campaign, simply puts their on a warlike par. He notes that "all the lives, both civilian and naval, lost in the whole course of the U-boat war were a: nothing compared with the frightful slaughters of the West Front deadlock which the U-boat sought to circumvent It was humane because it was the one remaining means which promised to get ; quick military decision at relatively small...