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...thorniest problems of the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and South Africa is internal opposition to sending conscripted soldiers beyond national boundaries. Each country has the right to conscript soldiers for home defense, but relies on volunteers for overseas forces. Each Prime Minister is proud of the number who volunteer, but each knows how the restrictions, growing out of nationalism and past quarrels with Britain, handicap the war effort...
...Women lay down across tracks to prevent conscript trains from leaving for Germany...
Bigger in area than the U.S., Brazil has a population of more than 40,000,000, of whom 1,000,000 are of pure German stock and 2,000,000 of Italian. Its small conscript army, recently expanded with U.S. technical assistance, numbers little more than 100,000 men, with an estimated 300,000 in reserve-just about large enough to squash possible fifth columns. Armed with World War I French artillery, the army ordered more from Germany in 1938, received cannon but little ammunition. Under Lend-Lease it has received additional arms from the U.S., but is still pitifully...
...plebiscite was on the question: Should the Government be released from its pledge not to conscript manpower for service overseas? The Canadian electorate voted Yes by a more than 2-to-1 vote-and the Cabinet thereupon split over whether to enforce conscription immediately. For the second consecutive weekend Mr. King sought refuge in his summer house in the gentle Gatineau hills. Past master of delay and compromise, he emerged this week with a characteristic proposal...
...odds on war between Japan and Russia before the end of 1942 shortened last week. From Chungking came word that the Japanese were speedily building defenses in Inner Mongolia, had already withdrawn some provincial-government departments behind the Great Wall. Allied Intelligence unearthed Jap plans to conscript native troops, to reinforce the army on the Manchukuoan-Siberian frontier...