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...conscripted them in peace. Some 16,500,000 men, aged 21 to 36, forthwith became liable to compulsory military service. How, when, whether conscription would actually touch them was prescribed in 1) the bill, and 2) the selective system which the Army & Navy had long since prepared against a martial...
...population of Schenectady, N. Y., had worked without a major hitch. Staff work was better than it had ever been before, traffic ran without road clogs. Soldiers behaved better. Except for two besotted regulars who went on window-breaking and larceny rampages (and got jail terms from a court martial), the deportment record was near-perfect...
...jail in Los Angeles last week moped lean-jawed 19-year-old Private Conway J. Bristow, sentenced by a court martial to six days for being absent without leave from drills of his National Guard outfit. Two years under the draft age set by the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, Private Bristow was ready to get back in uniform, wait the Government's call of the Guard to active emergency service. Said AWOLer Bristow of the most common of fense committed by soldiers: "I hope the sentence won't reflect on my patriotism. If I had not been patriotic...
Tommy Crump was a sergeant in the Minnesota Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1865 he enrolled in Seabury Divinity School in Faribault (pronounced Farribo), Minn., but a stoutly martial heart still beat beneath his cloth. Observing that the boys in the preparatory department of the Divinity School were undisciplined, Tommy Crump took to drilling them in the afternoons, using sticks as muskets, into the first cadet corps in any secondary school in the U. S. Minnesota's Episcopal Bishop Henry B. Whipple turned away from the Indians long enough to persuade the War Department to detail a regular...
...Churchill is the judge of the interests of his country, but he is not judge of ours." Charles de Gaulle, who was made a colonel only three years ago, a general five weeks ago, was promptly demoted, discredited and threatened with court-martial by the Petain Government. But in the French Empire, Charles de Gaulle -whether General or just Monsieur-had quite a following...