Word: ellard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oldtime National Guard officers would have none of such heresy. State control of the guard, cried the National Guard Association's 60-year-old Major General Ellard A. Walsh, "is practically the last bastion in the fortress of states' rights." He warned that the politically powerful association would carry the fight to Congress...
...George Ellard Duane...
From the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars came unstinted support. From the National Guard Association's pugnacious president Major General Ellard A. Walsh, came a headline-raising question: "If Russia finds it imperative [to train boys of 15 and 16], then how can the people of this nation ignore the issue...
Said the Association's grey-haired, pugnacious president Major General Ellard A. Walsh : "They say we must pass it now or never pass it. But if you put anything over on the American people during a period of war hysteria it is likely to be repealed. Prohibition was an example of that...
...Guard fears the Army would scrap it as superfluous and no longer practical (except possibly as state militias set up for police and disaster work). Stoutly on record as favoring universal military training, the politically potent Association will nevertheless fight any attempt to wash out their organization. Major General Ellard A. Walsh, Association president, said: "The chances of the Regular Army to impose its ideas of a military establishment on the nation are probably slim...