Word: martially
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...morning last week Halle awoke to find the streets thick with flags and steel helmets. Hundreds of Monarchists marched to strains of martial music. There were Prince Oskar, son of Kaiser "Bill," Generals Ludendorff, von Heeringen, von Francois, Hutier, Admiral Schroeder and many another Monarchy...
...Wilhelm Dreyer, a German, dynamited a train in the Ruhr. He was sentenced to death by a French court-martial. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he died at the French prison of St. Martin...
...official proclamation President Coolidge restored citizenship to men who deserted from the Army and Navy between the Armistice and the conclusion of our treaty of peace with Germany. The proclamation did not commute any court martial sentences, nor restore citizenship to those who deserted prior to the Armistice...
President Ebert replied that he fully shared the General's views and expressed his thanks to him and to the Reichswehr for the excellent manner in which they acquitted themselves of their "heavy task." He then made public the announcement of the revocation of martial law to take effect on March...
...firmly planted on the unassailable fact that there are still plenty of people who will fight with great joy if they have half a chance. There are few commodities cheaper than excuses for war, when the desire for war exists. Unfortunately then, as long as any considerable nation remains martial and aggressive, all the rest must follow suit, no matter how strongly reason urges them to pacifism. If it were universal, pacifism would mean peace. Limited to one country or one people, it might under present conditions, invite destruction...