Word: conscriptive
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Liberals and Laborites read into Sir Thomas' statement a threat to conscript labor in wartime. Only recently His Majesty's Loyal Opposition forced Prime Minister Chamberlain to stop toying with the scheme of general registration of all citizens, the first step toward nationwide conscription. "As soon as war is declared the generals and the brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor...
...supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have asked that Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further conversations between Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Jules Blondel, were temporarily out of the question...
...lowering the age at which Soviet citizens are subject to compulsory military training from 21 to 19, thus adding two age classes to the Soviet Army machine. The corps diplomatique in Berlin was also asked to remember that last year the French conscript term was doubled from one year to two and that in fact two years is now the rule in most countries adjoining the Fatherland. To put things thus quietly and sensibly to the German people is not emotional Herr Hitler's way. His high-pressure Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment was turned on full blast last...
Once in the chair, Professor van Zeeland read to the Assembly an extremely long and conciliatory note from Italy most pleasing to Britain. It promised that Il Duce will not raise a great Ethiopian army of conscript blacks -the one thing Britain fears, since with it Italy might upset the balance of power in Africa-and concluded in Benito Mussolini's nearest approach to a dove-cooing vein: "Italy will consider it an honor to inform the League of Nations of the progress achieved in her work of civilizing Ethiopia. . . . Italy views this work as a sacred mission...
...huge new German conscript Army which Adolf Hitler has been raising in violation of the Treaty of Versailles was ordered by the Realmleader to take its oath of loyalty to himself & Germany this week and thus come officially into being. This new German war machine, rapidly assembling last week, consists of some 170,000 professional soldiers and more than 200,000 conscripts who will soon swell to 500,000. Adolf Hitler, "Apotheosis of the Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were...