Word: militiaization
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Russia charged last night that the United States is leading a plot to split Europe and build up Germany's militia "for the purpose of aggression against the USSR." A Soviet note to America, Britain, and France and the major Western powers are deliberately trying to liquidate the four-power Council of Foreign Ministers...
Bill Lawrence was ordered to leave Bulgaria within 24 hours (he planned to leave anyway) on the charge that he had not registered with the militia. The other correspondents were hustled back to Berlin. Before they left, a Czech Communist reporter wistfully asked a U.S. newsman: "What have you heard from the outside world...
...permit organization of a Jewish militia to defend the new Jewish state...
...surprising, then, that Harvard, with its own little corps of militia men, acquired the sobriquet of "military" when the strife was at last ever. For a while the "mercury" militia still drilled on the Common or on the Delta, where Memorial Hall now stands, and Cambridge was for a while thought of as a very warlike community. The loyalists on Tory Row, now Brattle Street, had left hurriedly for Canada, and the Yankee merchants who moved into the fine old houses established a standard of luxury that showed a new, rich era had indeed arrived. One party of Colonel Henry...
...recruiting standards were exacting: physical fitness, sure loyalty and freedom from potentially embarrassing family obligations. One militia leader explained: "We don't want anyone who has children so small they can't be cared for by nuns and not big enough to take care of themselves. And we don't want anyone whose wife will say at a crucial moment, 'Carino, be very careful...