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...right, from the Fascist point of view, because his blackshirt youth organizations are machine-tailoring more soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
...throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide is the only way I can provide for those dependent on me, by making available to them the miserable balance due me on my adjusted compensation certificate [$275] . . . Why have you not had the honesty to conscript the massed and hoarded money of the country and put it to work?" He killed himself with gas. Amid such circumstances the U. S. Government last week closed its 1933 ledger. It began a new fiscal year in which President Roosevelt was determined to break the Treasury jinx...
Terrier-like Inspector General Maxima Weygand asked the Supreme Council of National Defense to extend the period of compulsory military service from a year to 18 months because of the small size of the conscript classes of 1934-5-6, born in Wartime. The Military Governor of Paris, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, announced mass training for the Paris population against gas attack this summer, under the direction of that effervescent Corsican, Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...
...Communist who pens a diatribe against Gandhi, described as a bourgeois demagogue, is matched by an English Liberal who enters a plea for enlightened, that is to say, non-revolutionary socialism. On the whole, this is a very moderately subversive publication. It should not cause great agitation among the conscript fathers. Yet it has accomplished the objects of its editors, namely, to provide a channel through which students could express themselves and to prove that some Harvard men could be "aroused" from their "intellectual lethargy and negativity." It is well that from time to time these things should be done
...several days all the governments of the world hesitated over the Herriot plan last week, keeping officially mum. Unofficially the German Government pointed out through its press spokesman that M. Herriot in proposing to turn the Reichwehr into a conscript army was proposing to break the Treaty of Versailles which forced upon Germany a volunteer army. Any breach in the Treaty, especially by a Frenchman, was so much to the good, the German spokesman declared, but of course the Fatherland would insist on "arms equality" (which M. Herriot had denounced as "re-armament...