Word: conscripts
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...Ones. Since Truman had proclaimed the U.S. policy of defending Greece, most Greeks had asked themselves: Why not sit back and let the U.S. and Russia fight it out? One young conscript, an Athenian grocer's son, put it this way: "Why does America help us at all? They have it all worked out, the big ones. We are just holding the position for them until they are ready...
About once a week, the Greek government declares all-out war on the Communist guerrillas. But last week, Greece's 88-year-old Premier, Themistocles Sophoulis, seemed grimmer than usual. He signed an emergency decree empowering the government to requisition houses and factories, conscript any man or woman, including doctors and nurses. Nightclubs were closed. Execution of some 1,500 jailed and condemned rebels got going in earnest...
...European rulers," he said, "told their people that UMT would make for a strong citizenry and nation, yet Germany repeatedly attacked conscript nations." Wright saw a possibility that UMT might develop into the militarism which "has been a contributing force to the downfall of civilizations which practiced...
...ultimate success. I never met an American with any knowledge of Russian politics who thought that the headmen of the Russian Government were crooked." Of course, the Russians she met did not include the many (close to 10 to 15 million, her correspondent-husband estimates) in Government prisons and conscript labor camps...
...right for 200 years to speak their own language, to keep from being absorbed by English Canada. They felt no ties for either France (the France they remembered was that of the 18th Century) or Britain. And when English Canada, feeling those ties in the war, had tried to conscript the French Canadians to fight abroad, there had been riots and bitterness...