Word: conscriptive
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Just how the new conscript law works was explained last week by youthful General Walter von Reichenau, a potent staff officer in the War Ministry...
Normally, at the age of 20, male conscripts will be called up for a full year of active service. Before that, however, they must have served a term in the Labor Service. After his year of active service the conscript is transferred to the First Reserve in which, until he is 35, he must assemble for annual inspections and reviews, serve at various times in maneuvers with active troops. From 35 to 46 he becomes a member of the Landwehr or Second Reserve, not to be called out except in times of national emergency but still liable for annual inspections...
...letting any possible enemy know that they will get the goods they give. . . . Britain may have to spend ?100,000,000 a year on air defense because we must never forget that we have to spend ?5 for every ?1 spent by Germany, [where] nearly all labor is conscript...
...Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army of 550,000 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. MacDonald & Simon, though they had in effect told Chamberlain that he could go to the devil, were actually intimidated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the point of pleading with France not so much as to mention Germany...
Benito Mussolini has already mobilized over 600,000 Italian troops and militia since Herr Hitler started raising a German conscript army in violation of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) Last week M. Flandin decided that French youths of the class which has just finished its military training shall not return to their homes but remain under arms until further orders. Newly trustful of Italy since the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 14), France withdrew nearly 30,000 troops last week from her mountainous Italian frontier, sent them scurrying cross-country to the pleasant valleys and leafy woods Germans...