Word: conscriptive
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...price exacted by French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand before he would consent to support against U. S. opposition the naval projects of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The French price, high, was that the British Empire should abandon its traditional policy of opposing the creation of huge conscript reservist armies in peace time by France and her allies: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania...
...Austen Chamberlain began by regretting that on the two capital naval and military questions the French and British found themselves in diametrically opposed positions. English public opinion believes traditionally that volunteer armies have a defensive character, whereas conscript armies are intended for offensive warfare. On the other hand, he understands that in French opinion obligatory military service appears as a guarantee of a policy of peace, while a volunteer army takes on the character of a pretorian guard...
...plenary session of the Federation was called to hear the world peace plan written by Dr. David Starr Jordan, Chancellor-Emeritus of Leland Stanford University, which last year won a $25,000 contest conducted by Raphael Herman, Detroit manufacturer (TIME, Dec. 15, INTERNATIONAL). Dr. Jordan's plan would conscript the world's school teachers, represented by twelve cooperating committees, to work under the supervision...
...many months, the Sofia Government has been deluging the Allied authorities with proofs of Bolshevik machinations in Bulgaria and has often and urgently made representations that the Bulgarian Army of the 20,000 volunteers permitted by the Treaty of Neuilly be supplanted by a conscript army of 50,000 to combat the growing Bolshevik menace. The Council of Ambassadors at Paris, guardian angels of the peace treaties, permitted (the week before the present outrages) an increase of 3,000 volunteers, a number which the Government thought totally insufficient, especially as it has repeatedly professed that it can place little reliance...
This bill is now pending before the United States Senate-having been recommended by the committee on military affairs. Its most important prevision is that the President, in time of war, or when war is imminent, shall "determine, proclaim, and conscript the material resources, industrial organizations, and services over which government control is necessary to the successful termination of such emergency...