Word: ellard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counter them, before a House Armed Services subcommittee last week came Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh. 69. National Guard Association president, and twelve Guard generals. Acceding to the Army directive on most points, Minnesota's Walsh demanded one privilege: eleven weeks' training for the 17-18½-year-olds from whom the Guard draws "the bulk of our enlistees." If it is forced to surrender that final prerogative, warned Walsh, the National Guard will ''have had the kiss of death placed upon...
...Ellard A. Walsh also took another swipe at Secretary of Defense Wilson for having said that during the Korean War the Guard was a sort of "draft-dodging" haven...
...latest hit the front pages, the predictable sound-off began in virtually every state. Some called Charlie's statement asinine, illadvised, ridiculous, foolish and absurd. Georgia's governor rapped it as "a dastardly slur," Wyoming's as "an un-American utterance." Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 69, president of the potent National Guard Association, called it "a damned lie." The South Carolina house of representatives passed a resolution declaring it an "insult" to the state, and the Rhode Island senate passed one calling it "a gross and unwarranted insult" to the Guard. On Capitol Hill...
...Ellard A. Walsh, president of the association, has accused the army of trying to "relegate the National Guard to a second-string position in national defense, if not to destroy it." He feels that the Guard will lose about 100,000 men, almost a quarter of their total force, because of the six month training provision...
...Begin." The mere thought of the National Guard serving in any sort of civil-defense capacity while other American soldiers were fighting elsewhere was enough to bring bellows of rage from doughty Major General (ret.) Ellard A. Walsh, 66, longtime president of the National Guard Association. Walsh knew that behind Hannah's faint praise lay basic distrust of the peacetime Guard: Hannah is convinced that many Guard outfits are shot through with political officers, overaged officers, incompetents, and youths who joined up to avoid the draft. Challenged Walsh: "If they want war, let it begin here."* Then he really...