Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation commission. Main reason was "technical": the Soviet Union had insisted on a member for each of its 16 constituent republics. During more than a year the commission had ordered no trials, drawn no indictments. Meanwhile, Russia tried war criminals periodically. In Lublin a month ago six SS (Elite) Guardsmen were indicted, tried and hanged in three days for mass murder committed in the Maidenek "extermination" camp. While the United Nations were still floundering for a workable plan, Russia, as usual...
Perhaps it was just a routine flare-up of personal pique, perhaps a touch of war-weariness had made the Palace Guardsmen snappish. Whatever the cause, stories of White House bitterness and intrigue crackled through Washington last week...
...Guard system set up by the National Defense Act would be adequate if the War Department would utilize it to the full, which it has not done in the past. On this score Guardsmen quoted General John J. Pershing, who said after World War I: "The National Guard never received the wholehearted support of the Regular Army during the World...
...National Guard has an excellent wartime record. In 1917 it gave 18 infantry divisions to the nation-a force of half a million men. Guardsmen comprised 37% of all U.S. troops killed in France, 41% of all wounded. In 1940 the Guard gave the nation 19 infantry divisions of 300,000 men; 20,920 of these were officers, 85% of whom are still in active service. One National Guardsman-Raymond S. McLain-now commands a corps. Guardsmen, 3.75% of the Army's strength, have won eight of 61 Congressional medals awarded the Army in this...
...this last point the Guardsmen were willing to rest their case before a nation which instinctively shies from total centralization and hates militarization even more. To U.S. citizens they trumpeted the warning of the founding fathers. James Madison wrote in 1788: "On the smallest scale a standing military force has its inconveniences. On an extensive scale its consequences may be fatal . . . inauspicious to [the nation's] liberties...