Word: militia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slovakia last week, peasants armed with scythes and clubs assailed police who entered parish churches to arrest Roman Catholic priests. At least two policemen were killed. Workers' militia and regular troops were rushed to the areas of disturbance...
Flagrant Violations. The treaties, said the U.S. State Department, have been "flagrantly violated" by Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. The three satellites have ignored the clauses limiting their armed forces, both by building up regular armies larger than permitted and recruiting "irregular" formations, such as "frontier guards," militia, etc. They have consistently sabotaged the "property rights" of the Western nations, guaranteed under the treaties, notably by expropriating U.S. and British oil companies. Above all, in a long series of political and religious persecutions, they have trampled on the treaty clauses in which they promised to all their citizens "without distinction...
...programme" began before a rapidly-growing crowd at 2 p.m. as the Lampoon force of pink-shirted, black-helmeted militia armed with wooden rifles and backed up by a jeep bearing a beer keg set off on a demonstration march around Lowell and the Block-house...
President Conant in his recently published books, Education in a Divided World," has put forward the suggestion that every boy of 18 should be enrolled in a national militia for 10 years, and that summer camps be set up to train 10,000,000 youths every year...
...vest-pocket southern uprising. The Russians were leaving behind them a firmly installed Communist regime with a well-trained army of 150,000. The departure of the Red army was intended to bring pressure on the U.S. to withdraw its troops, leaving a South Korean constabulary and militia totaling about 60,000 to face the far stronger northern force...