Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terrier-like Inspector General Maxima Weygand asked the Supreme Council of National Defense to extend the period of compulsory military service from a year to 18 months because of the small size of the conscript classes of 1934-5-6, born in Wartime. The Military Governor of Paris, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, announced mass training for the Paris population against gas attack this summer, under the direction of that effervescent Corsican, Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...
...Communist who pens a diatribe against Gandhi, described as a bourgeois demagogue, is matched by an English Liberal who enters a plea for enlightened, that is to say, non-revolutionary socialism. On the whole, this is a very moderately subversive publication. It should not cause great agitation among the conscript fathers. Yet it has accomplished the objects of its editors, namely, to provide a channel through which students could express themselves and to prove that some Harvard men could be "aroused" from their "intellectual lethargy and negativity." It is well that from time to time these things should be done
...That the German Army or Reichswehr, now consisting of 100,000 picked volunteers who must enlist for not less than twelve years, be disbanded and replaced by a conscript army similar to that of France...
...Herriot was understood to say that all volunteer armies-such as the British, U. S. and Russian-must also be remodeled on conscript pattern to satisfy France. Later, after he had won his vote of confidence, the Premier explained that the British and U. S. armies are excepted from his plan which applies to Continental Europe only...
...several days all the governments of the world hesitated over the Herriot plan last week, keeping officially mum. Unofficially the German Government pointed out through its press spokesman that M. Herriot in proposing to turn the Reichwehr into a conscript army was proposing to break the Treaty of Versailles which forced upon Germany a volunteer army. Any breach in the Treaty, especially by a Frenchman, was so much to the good, the German spokesman declared, but of course the Fatherland would insist on "arms equality" (which M. Herriot had denounced as "re-armament...