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Russian boys of 18, 19 and 20 were called up for conscript service in the Red Army last week. Reason: "the threat of capitalist encirclement." Troops of the Western Military District opened their regular fall maneuvers near the frontiers of German Poland and Rumania. In the rich Ukraine the city of Kiev was peppered with mock bombs. The Red Navy completed summer maneuvers off the brand-new Soviet Republics of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, which now constitute the Baltic Military District. A new diamond-encrusted gold-&-platinum star was created for the five Red Army Marshals: Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Kulik, Budenny...
...Conscription of all wealth that is needed for national defense is a duty that no nation can neglect if it is to survive. But let Reader Dean ponder two facts: i) The Government cannot conscript unbuilt factories. Just now, it is trying to get volunteers to build them, hence some difficulties. 2) Con scripting wealth is a long-established principle of government. Its common name is taxation. One rearmament tax bill has been passed and another is pending...
Liability. In Nazi ideology economics is an instrument of war. Against barter, against cheap and conscript labor from the conquered countries, against German economic sleight-of-hand, high-wage U. S. business is unarmed. With the Germans masters of Europe, U. S. European trade ($1,893,000,000 in 1938) will almost certainly dwindle or it will have to be conducted on Germany's disadvantageous barter terms. And if Britain loses, Germany will have 60% of the world's merchant fleet. She will control the docks of the world either directly, or by economic pressure. A shipment...
Though he is tall for a Japanese (5 ft. 11 in.), he could never be a soldier. He was given a D in his conscript physical examination. Charm is not necessarily a prerequisite for dictatorship, but he is singularly unprepossessing: shy, chinless, unaggressive-"noble," as the Japanese say. He has neither ambition nor self-assurance. "I have," he says, "no confidence in myself to solve the political and economic problems of the nation...
...labor leaders and employers in defense industries on how many men were needed, got no clear-cut answer. In Washington, Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, in charge of labor training, surrounded himself with an array of coordinators, directors, advisers, stock takers. Already abandoned was President Roosevelt's plan to conscript 1,500,000 trainees for industrial defense. There was a sharp dispute over whether a shortage of mechanics existed: A. F. of L. claimed that an incomplete survey in 33 States by the Social Security Board showed there were 657,000 unemployed skilled craftsmen; employers claimed that they were shorthanded...