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...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...
...bomb shell. He hardly had time to draw a deep breath after his third inaugural before he gave the state a breath-taking demand for emergency powers in case of atomic attack or invasion. Dewey wanted stand-by authority to: make law by proclamation, seize private homes and property, conscript manpower, ration raw materials and finished goods, set up constructions priorities, fire any public officer who refused to obey his order (including mayors and police chiefs). This was not exactly martial law, an aide explained, because the Army would not be in charge, and injured citizens would still have recourse...
...still acted as though everything Russia did was right, everything the U.S. did was wrong: during the convention the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, the Atlantic pact, the arms program and U.S. courts and U.S. selective service were vehemently denounced (no mention was made of the U.S.S.R.'s conscript army or secret police). But, to soothe the public, the party-liners went along with two paragraphs of policy statement which accused both Russia and the U.S. of blame in the cold...
...skirmishes had been paid for out of $2,250,000 raised from voluntary $25 assessments, which 75% of the A.M.A.'s active, assessable members had paid. The money was running out fast. To pay for the decisive engagement which the A.M.A.'s top brass expects in 1950, conscript dollars were needed. The house of delegates ruled that any doctor who falls 13 months behind in dues would forfeit membership...