Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's 1935 defense budget of $792,000,000 is the hugest peacetime appropriation in her history. And last week the Chamber of Deputies upped the Army conscript period from 12 to 18 and 24 months for the next five years while the lean "War Baby" classes are being called to the colors...
...last week Adolf Hitler, casting to the winds his last semblance of obedience to the Treaty of Versailles, calling for a German conscript Army of half a million men (see p. 20), set all Europe seething with the most real war talk in 21 years...
...despised parliament (often called "a prostitute" by profane, eccentric War Minister Josef Pilsudski), assembled last week the Government published three decree laws to strengthen still further Poland's defenses. All citizens of both sexes from 17 to 60 are made liable to "auxiliary military service," may be conscripted by a single Cabinet order, even in peace time. In case of war, the Government may conscript all property and, by implication, money. In peace time, under a subsection of this second decree, the State may order factories adapted for quick conversion to war use. The third decree law permits...
...right, from the Fascist point of view, because his blackshirt youth organizations are machine-tailoring more soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
...throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide is the only way I can provide for those dependent on me, by making available to them the miserable balance due me on my adjusted compensation certificate [$275] . . . Why have you not had the honesty to conscript the massed and hoarded money of the country and put it to work?" He killed himself with gas. Amid such circumstances the U. S. Government last week closed its 1933 ledger. It began a new fiscal year in which President Roosevelt was determined to break the Treasury jinx...