Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their native pupils for guides, tough Jap troops might even find a way 200 miles through the jungles and over the mountains to Port Moresby by land. According to the story, the Lutherans had abandoned their coastal missions and retired to the jungles. In one mission house Australian militia found Nazi arm bands and pennants...
...tells it, he died and went to eternity for seven minutes. The following year he was "inspirationally instructed" that "when a certain young house painter comes to the head of the German people, then do you take that as your time symbol for bringing . . . the Christian Militia into the open...
...bitten, hard-faced Australian named Henry Gordon Bennett, who will have to move his men fast, moved fast as a man. At 16, after attending a small suburban Melbourne school, Henry Gordon Bennett went to work as an office boy in an insurance firm. At 19 he joined the militia reserve. At 26 he was a colonel. At 28 he went to France to fight in World War I. At 29 he was a Brigadier. Before World War II, as a businessman-reservist, he wrote a sharp series of articles attacking the Australian General Staff for not letting militia reservists...
...well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed...
...will form new detachments of the national militia to help the Red Army...