Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...true, Premier Flandin emphasized, that the new French conscription decree, cited by Realmleader Hitler as though it would largely increase France's fighting effectives, will have any such effect. The decree, as everyone had opportunity to find out months ago, was issued because the number of French males born during the War years was abnormally low. Today these "War babies" are ready for battle, but in numbers so reduced that the groups coming up for compulsory military training for the next few years would not suffice to keep the French Army at its current peacetime strength. Therefore, during what...
...harshest, most gutturally thrilling German that the page of the Treaty of Versailles on which German signatures are inked is just another scrap of paper. Specifically Messiah Hitler decreed that Germany will now violate the Treaty of Versailles' Part V by raising as rapidly as possible a conscript peacetime army of half a million men-bigger than the continental peacetime army of France...