Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Song of the Road (Stellar Productions). During World War I Scottish Comedian Harry Lauder, 47, arrived in Manhattan and, with a troop of skirling, skirted bagpipers, raised the U. S. martial temper by stamping around with his crooked stick, singing We A' Go Hame the Same Way, The Wee Hoose 'mang the Heather. Last week, No. 35 of World War II, Sir Harry Lauder, 69, was back in the U. S. But not in person, on film. Said he: "A wee bit o' celluloid crosses the ocean just as fast and at ha' the price...
...moved his wife and two daughters to their first real home after years of nomadic army life: an old castle just off the Köslin market place. He added municipal cares to his army work, became a military potentate. As sleepy Köslin came to life with martial activity, recruits and war materials pouring in, he had the town councilors substitute busses for their antiquated tram-cars, including late busses for moviegoers. He entertained well and often, guzzling beer in soldier-size quantities. He liked chess and horseback riding as well as motorcycling and engineering. He intervened...
...sick feeling in their martial hearts and in the pit of their political stomachs was the main reaction of the Allied peoples-and their friends-to the withdrawal of Allied troops from lower Norway last week (see p. 25). Prime Minister Chamberlain's first incomplete "explanation" in the House of Commons (see p. 32) contained no restorative stronger than patience to parry the shock. At very least, the Allies had grossly, amateurishly muffed a priceless chance to gain by Adolf Hitler's expansion of the war. And even more gravely psychological than military were the implications...
...crisis was not so acute as it had been two weeks earlier, there was no sign that it might not become acute again at any moment. More & more The Netherlands took on the aspect of an armed camp. With the entire country under martial law, the Army's commander in chief, Lieut. General Henri Gerard Winckelman, clamped down on the hitherto free press, ordered the licensing of publishers and sellers of all printed matter. A license, the General explained, could be considered automatically granted except for publications that "might interfere with the country's safety, political interests...
...Casey was right and Herr Hitler's very apparent preparations were not a dodge to deceive his enemies, the Low Countries had good reason to be nervous. Nervous they were. Belgium called back all men who had been released from the reserves because of age. The Netherlands extended martial law to the entire country, for the first time since 184,8. Luxembourg, which has an Army of 475 (gendarmerie included), cannot defend herself and will not try to, but the Luxembourgeois, who stood four years of occupation in World War I, know that far worse things are in store...