Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Dominion fundamentals as do the Conservatives, they have been more than afraid that an anti-Bennett landslide would not be sufficiently pro-King. In a hysterical hashing up of blatant issues which have no real existence, Mr. King has charged that a vote for Bennett was a vote to conscript Canadians to fight the battles of the League of Nations and the Mother Country, while Mr. Bennett in alluding to Japanese cut-price dumping and Liberal low-tariff talk, has thundered nonsensically, "My opponent is on the side of Japan...
...expressly stated in the new army law that no soldier in active service may be a member of a political party, the National Socialist included. At the end of his active service the conscript will join, not the Brown Shirts or other private political armies, but a new veterans' organization known as the Soldiers' League, sworn to "closest co-operation with the active troops and military authorities and loyalty by former soldiers to their War Minister, who possesses the Führer unlimited confidence...