Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Songs and Ballads of America's Wars (Frank Warner; Elektra). An informal collection of old pulse-bumpers, many of them all but forgotten. They range from Felix the Soldier, a delightfully wry recollection of the French and Indian War by a conscript Irishman, to such truculent songs of the Confederacy as The Bonnie Blue Flag and The Old Unreconstructed...
...some Frenchmen who have not unlearned the past, and in the minds of some Vietnamese who will not forget it. It is a civil war, too: countryman fighting countryman, often not because of differing convictions but because of the accident of geography and which side was there to conscript him. The Vietnamese nationalists tell you that half or more of the Viet Minh fighters they face are not Communists but other nationalists, who are persuaded of the need to drive the French out. The Vietnamese themselves are positive that the French must give them their independence...
...show. Johnston-Buffett & Co. made 75,000 telephone calls for Taft, mailed 60,000 pieces of literature, showing how to write in his name. Buffett appealed to the considerable isolationist sentiment in Nebraska. Said he: "Eisenhower ... is the candidate of those who would have American boys die as conscript cannon-fodder thousands of miles across the ocean...
...anonymous as his name, Blank has been working over his blueprint for more than a year. No military man himself (he was a conscript in World War II), Blank is a trade union official, a wheel horse in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party. He declares himself opposed to reviving a German military caste, but willing to assemble an army which will exist only inside the six-nation European Army. On this point, most Westerners accept his and Adenauer's sincerity...
When Razmara was chief of staff, he worked closely and well with a U.S. military mission. Today, Iran has a gendarmery of 20,000 and a conscript army of 130,000 scattered across the land to maintain internal security. Its stubby, wiry infantrymen wear U.S. uniforms or British battle dress, carry old U.S. bolt-action rifles. The government has bought $26 million worth of surplus U.S. military stocks, mainly M-24 tanks, light artillery and trucks. The two air brigades fly ancient British Audax and Hawker Hurricane fighters, plus a few P-47s. A tiny navy patrols along the Caspian...