Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Break a Siege. One day in January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt called in Pat Hurley, then a 59-year-old reserve colonel, who had worn his first uniform 40 years before in the Indian Territory militia. The mission he assigned to -Pat was breathtaking: to break the blockade of Bataan from outside, get some food and ammunition to MacArthur's beleaguered soldiers. As a brigadier general, Pat Hurley took some millions of dollars and flew to Australia. There he hired shippers who were willing to take the slim chance. Several ships got through-for every one that made...
Civil War. Axis strategy in Yugoslavia, as elsewhere, has been to create disunity that would lead to the annihilation of "inferior" peoples. German agents supply arms to Slovenian "White Guard" militia who fight the Partisans. They support quisling regimes. As Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Moslems, Clericals, Communists and Democrats swelled the Partisan ranks, the Axis has supported anyone who would fight the Partisans...
...Mexico's wholehearted war effort was testified to last week by the STational Defense Ministry. Summing up the military achievement, the Ministry forecast that by the end of next year 1,600,000 Mexicans will have had military training, the bulk of them as a citizens' militia, with weekly practice sessions. Day by day thousands of Mexicans not yet eligible for induction are volunteering. Consignments of equipment are arriving from the U.S. The Mexicans have already found a name for U.S. jeeps: they call them "las cucarachas...
...protest against the war." He conveniently forgot his purge of 160,000 faltering Fascist Party members and the close watch the Gestapo and the Ovra are keeping on suspected revolutionaries and possible Darlanites. He made no mention of reports that near Foggia 40,000 peasants had joined with local militia in a spontaneous uprising which was put down after four days by troops from Rome; or that at Genoa on Oct. 23 air-raid wardens staged an anti-war demonstration...
...shotguns swarmed outside the Laurel jail. Town authorities telephoned Governor Paul B. Johnson, outspoken opponent of mob violence. The Governor dispatched State police, two companies of State guards. He also called two Laurel ministers, asked them to try to stop the mob. But by the time ministers and militia arrived, it was too late. Next morning's sun showed the body of Howard Wash hanging from a bridge over Tallahoma Creek...