Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anglo-Indian family, Orwell was a scholarship student at Eton (where he "learned as nearly as possible nothing"), served for five years in Burma as a member of the Indian Imperial Police, fought and was severely wounded in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the P.O.U.M. militia (the loose organization of anti-Stalinist leftists which was fiercely attacked by the Communists...
When the Japs overran Peiping in 1937, Yenching, just five miles away, became an oasis of free learning: the Japs then were too sensitive to U.S. opinion to move in. But they ordered President Stuart to hoist the puppet-regime flag and to give personal "thanks" to the Jap militia for the invasion. Dr. Stuart refused, and got away with it. For three years before Pearl Harbor he was used to transmit peace feelers between the Chinese and the Japs. At 8:20 a.m., Dec. 8, 1941, Dr. Stuart's freedom ended...
Communism has its opposition. The rightist Partito Democratico Italiano has arms, and money to buy more. The Christian Democratic Party (heavily Catholic) is persistently reported to have a well-armed militia...
...jolted the old man out of his apathy. Into a booing, hissing court, under heavy escort, came two of France's most hated men : suave Count Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy ambassador to Ger man-occupied Paris, and defiant Joseph Darnand, once head of Vichy's hated militia. The court had called them despite the refusal of Prosecutor Andrá Mornet to hear the evidence of "a crook and a gunman...
...witness continued: he was not responsible for the murders of French patriots by Vichyminister Joseph Darnand's notorious "Blackbird" militia. He had denounced no one. In fact, he personally had saved ex-Premier Reynaud and Léon Blum from Gestapo execution. The prosecution confronted Laval with a letter he had written to Pétain: "... A few spectacular executions will prevent disorder and anarchy. . . ." Cried Laval: "I respect human life." (Searing laughter in the courtroom...