Word: militiaization
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...State Guard has been organized to replace the Militia that disappeared with the start of the draft, and will be concerned mainly with traffic control, guarding property, and keeping order...
...been fired over a wage dispute; 2) an immediate conference between management and the union to discuss grievances; 3) an election at the plant to determine a bargaining agent and a promise from the company to sit down and bargain. When the company threatened to demand that the militia be called out, Knudsen leaned across the table, shook a long finger, declared: "That would be pure murder." Hour after hour the conferees wrestled and wrangled...
...garage. Known by his staff as Q, by his friends as "Slosher," he was, as all insiders knew, the man to produce tanks. But Martel was only a colonel, and when he was made a major general he was given charge not of tanks but of Territorials (militia...
...Albania, to improve the shattered discipline of the routed, retreating Blackshirts, hurried fierce, sporting Achille Starace, former Secretary of the Fascist Party, now chief of the Fascist Militia. Mussolini's mouthpiece, Giovanni Ansaldo, took pains to announce over the radio: "We must win the war in the Mediterranean with our own Army, quite alone." Crown Prince Umberto himself condoned with the families of the first victims of the Greeks...
...conscious of equality and fighting for dear things, have advantages over mechanical, driven armies. Tiny Greek citizen armies defeated huge Persian armies of slaves. The unarmored English longbowmen of Crecy and Agincourt beat the armored French knights who were "their liege lord's men." Washington's burning militia trounced the paid Hessians of George III. "Cromwell's New Model Army," said Wintringham, "is still the best model for British fighting men." But can a People's Army stop modern motorcycle troops, whose guns can cut a man in half in two seconds at 100 yards, planes...