Word: martially
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...against militarism is of great importance. No class of people is more aware of the obvious absurdity of military force, as an instrument of national policy, than students who are studying the effects of the last war. If they can train their emotional reactions sufficiently well to resist the "martial spirit" of some future date, they will do a tremendous service to mankind. Continuous pledges against war may not always be effectual, but they help...
...Minister of War [M. Daladier] has drawn my attention to the serious effects which such propaganda has produced among young soldiers, reservists, and even reserve officers. Several have already been sentenced by courts-martial. During their imprisonment or after sentence expressions of sympathy have been sent to them from various quarters and from abroad. . . . This movement ... is liable to gain a certain momentum if steps are not taken...
...mines for German failure to meet Reparations payments. Albert Leo Schlageter and his friends went to work. Railroad bridges were bombed, canal locks smashed, dams destroyed-the French got little benefit from their seized coal. On May 8 Schlageter and several associates were caught and tried by French court-martial. Despite Berlin protests, on May 28 he was shot dead by French soldiers...
...race. They will have no traffic with the exploded efficacy of war as a way to end ware. They have read too much recent history and lived too much in the midst of it to believe so easily in either the efficacious or the virtues of the martial spirit. It may be true, as it is often said, that were the bands to begin to play, and the flags to wave, for all the anti-war meetings and resolutions, they would be there, and willingly. But I rather think not. For this revolt against the cliches and conventions connected with...
...military court worked up evidence for the civil prosecution of those rural mobsters who, week before, had abducted and outraged Judge Charles Clark Bradley (TIME, May 8). Nearly 100 earth-stained farmers were held prisoner in a military stockade outside town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers' Holiday Association, under rough-spoken Milo Reno, raucously voted another farm strike May 13. That...