Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dakar; news of his mission leaked out from a dinner in London, tipped the Germans off. But Dakar cost him prestige and French West Africa. In French Indo-China Governor General Georges Catroux took too long to make up his mind. By the time Catroux had decided to join De Gaulle, Vichy had replaced him with Admiral Jean Decoux, who last week handed the colony over to Japan (see p. 27). General Catroux hurried to London, tore three of the five stars from his sleeve and reported to De Gaulle (who wears only two stars). It was General Catroux...
...became clear that De Gaulle and Britain would see it through, one by one French officers came from far places to join his cause. Vice Admiral Emile Henry Muselier, who had been retired by Admiral Darlan, reached England soon after the armistice and was immediately made commander of the Naval Force. Others were slower in arriving. Colonel Martial Valin, now commander of the Air Force, was in Brazil when the armistice was signed. Vichy offered to let him name his own terms if he would stay there. Said Colonel Valin: "I am going to serve France where my conscience dictates...
...invaders. Until then its members were asked only to fight for independence as best they could, to "splash the V from one end of Europe to the other." In the polished, conspiratorial tones to which thousands of Europeans have lately become familiar, Colonel Britton concluded: "You are asked to join a disciplined army. It is a strange army, but one to which it is an honor to belong. It is an army which the Germans fear. . . . The Germans will not drown out the knocking of fate, however loud they beat. For when they tap out the V they are merely...
...prime favorite is still James Montgomery Flagg's World War I Uncle Sam, pointing imperiously and saying: "I Want YOU." The Navy's oldtime winner was a throat-catcher Howard Chandler Christy-a wistful girl who says: "Gee, I wish I were a man-I'd join the Navy." The Navy is itching to use it again...
Sickly Recruits. In 1934, when Hitler was rebuilding the German Army, military doctors found that even in such healthy cities as Kiel, the number of perfect human specimens was "frightfully low"-only 12.6%. Only half the men examined in that district were sturdy enough to join the Army. Even among the most carefully selected men in the Air and Marine Corps, a high proportion suffered from tooth and mouth diseases caused by scurvy (lack of vitamin C). "Especially in evidence" were two types of nervous disorders: 1) constipation; 2) "soldier-heart...