Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disorders last month (when partisans occupied the local prefecture for a menacing 24 hours), some 200 men wearing civilian clothes bulging slightly at the hip pocket had kept guard in the streets near the Catholic daily newspaper Italia. They were members of north Italy's Catholic underground militia, Avanguardisti Cattolici-Catholic Vanguardists. Milanese called it simply...
General Fu had proved able to do one other thing rather better than most Chinese commanders: he had organized the people of the northwest countryside in active support of the Nationalist cause. Months before Nanking called for it, Fu had mobilized district militia, mustered them out every morning at 6 for intensive calisthenics and political lectures. Rifles were few but spirits were high. When Fu drove out Communists he returned most land titles to the old owners but insisted that rents be sharply reduced (never more than a third of the yield). As a practical agrarian reformer, Fu pleased...
...push forward with a plan for dividing Palestine, the United Nations has yet to offer an acceptable method of insuring the partition's success. The authors of the plan place their hope for peaceful government during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security program...
...Arabian oil lands; any concentration of Russian troops in the Middle East seemed strategically unwise; and small nations refused to sacrifice their tiny armies to the cause of international police. The stakes riding on a successful partition of Palestine demand a safeguard beyond the efforts of a weak state militia. As the originator of the plan, the United Nations can do the Jewish people a great service and fulfill its purpose in the eyes of the world...
...real sufferers of the civil war, the peasants and small townsmen find themselves powerless toward off despoilment by both sides. Where the Kuomintang rules, the farmers see produce taxed or confiscated out of their hands; the Communist ruled portions face a "militia" which drafts men wholesale before each campaign. Wrecked railroad lines have made everything but small industry impossible in the cities which are largely dependent upon them for raw materials. Meanwhile the Kuomintang armies have slowly given way to the more mobile Communist columns, which are more able to live off the land than their opponents...