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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young Roger Lamb met a recruiting officer in a public house and, several drinks later, found himself sworn in for a long stretch of barrack-room life. In 1776 he was shipped overseas to the rebellious New World. There he defended Montreal from Benedict Arnold's militia, lived with the Indians of the Six Nations to learn wilderness warfare, marched with Burgoyne to recapture Crown Point and Ticonderoga, surrendered honorably to General Gates at Saratoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Redcoat's View | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...phrase "we young Canadians about to be conscripted" is, of course, misleading. Fit Canadian men, between 21 and 45, who are not now in any branch of the active service or militia, will receive 30 days' military training to enable them to help defend Canada, should that situation ever arise. This is the "conscription" referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 14, 1940 | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...alighted at Madrid's airport the people of Spain had already been told that they were remaining nonbelligerent, had shown their relief by demonstrating in the streets. They were glad to welcome El Cunadissimo home under such circumstances. Don RamÓn reviewed picked contingents of the Falangist militia, then rushed home to see his sixth child, borne by Señora Suñer the night before. It was a girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Cunadissimo's Return | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

From the evidence seized, the Gendarmes claimed proof of an armed, thoroughly organized Nazi militia, planning "liquidation" of local Government officials, destruction of food and fuel deposits, armed resistance in case of attack. General Calderon published photographs of arms caches; Commandant Barres told of radio transmitters, a card file containing names, personal characteristics, technical aptitudes of all Germans in the district. Significant was "an official German map" of Europe and South America, marked with a red band extending from Germany downward through Brazil, covering all Misiones Territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Putsch on the Pampas | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...long training for the job. Strasser fought through all four years of World War I. He led the workers' militia against the generals who tried to over throw the Weimar Republic in the Kapp Putsch. His elder brother, Gregor Strasser, was Hitler's first Gauleiter (district leader). Brother Gregor, whose secretary was Heinrich Himmler, converted reluctant Brother Otto to the Nazi cause. Then both went into Nazi publishing, hired away from their enemies a live-wire propagandist-Paul Joseph Goebbels. Later Otto Strasser broke openly with Hitler. Brother Gregor did not break away. He resigned his Party posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conspirator | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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