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...true, Premier Flandin emphasized, that the new French conscription decree, cited by Realmleader Hitler as though it would largely increase France's fighting effectives, will have any such effect. The decree, as everyone had opportunity to find out months ago, was issued because the number of French males born during the War years was abnormally low. Today these "War babies" are ready for battle, but in numbers so reduced that the groups coming up for compulsory military training for the next few years would not suffice to keep the French Army at its current peacetime strength. Therefore, during what...
...France's 1935 defense budget of $792,000,000 is the hugest peacetime appropriation in her history. And last week the Chamber of Deputies upped the Army conscript period from 12 to 18 and 24 months for the next five years while the lean "War Baby" classes are being called to the colors...
...last week Adolf Hitler, casting to the winds his last semblance of obedience to the Treaty of Versailles, calling for a German conscript Army of half a million men (see p. 20), set all Europe seething with the most real war talk in 21 years...
...harshest, most gutturally thrilling German that the page of the Treaty of Versailles on which German signatures are inked is just another scrap of paper. Specifically Messiah Hitler decreed that Germany will now violate the Treaty of Versailles' Part V by raising as rapidly as possible a conscript peacetime army of half a million men-bigger than the continental peacetime army of France...
...despised parliament (often called "a prostitute" by profane, eccentric War Minister Josef Pilsudski), assembled last week the Government published three decree laws to strengthen still further Poland's defenses. All citizens of both sexes from 17 to 60 are made liable to "auxiliary military service," may be conscripted by a single Cabinet order, even in peace time. In case of war, the Government may conscript all property and, by implication, money. In peace time, under a subsection of this second decree, the State may order factories adapted for quick conversion to war use. The third decree law permits...