Word: militiaization
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...materiel, too, the Canada which had faced war last year with six destroyers, less than 300 military airplanes and an active militia of just over 4,000 men, had come a good piece. Minister of Munitions and Supply C. D. Howe told the House of Commons: "Canada's industrial tempo is at its highest peak in history." Airplane production, he said, was already at the rate of 1,300 a year and would reach 4,320 next year. Eleven types were already in production, and more on the drafting board. When plant equipment is completed, the country will produce...
...reserves at home as long as Italian transports could safely cross the Mediterranean. Water is the direst military factor in Libya. In East Africa, reinforceable only by air (because Suez would be plugged before being surrendered), Italy had one white division (Savoy Grenadiers) of 21,391 men, seven native militia legions (50,000), 70,000 white farmers and workers trained as a militia reserve. Her airplanes there, which could be added to from home, totaled only 225 frontline, 200 reserves...
...Front Government, weakened by dissensions among its Radical, Socialist and Communist members, retaliated by raiding extreme Rightist parties' headquarters. In offices of the openly fascist Nacionalistas, the Government-supporting press reported police had discovered plans of a secret system of revolutionary cells and papers describing a uniformed Nacionalista militia, drilled by onetime German Army Officer Brigadier Wiegold. The alarmed Government promptly issued a declaration dissolving "all apparently political organizations" formed by Rightists...
...lavishly entertained in 1933, well remember Balbo's flashing eyes, his bold gallantry, his gladiator physique. He had come a long way, in the social graces, from the fearless ruffian who helped D'Annunzio occupy Fiume and, after Mussolini took Rome, became chief of the Fascist militia, reputed inventor of the castor-oil treatment for obdurate opponents too important to be clubbed or assassinated. When Mussolini let him be Under Secretary for Air in 1926, he modernized Italy's Air Corps, developed mass-formation flying. For the Chicago flight, Mussolini made him Italy's only...
...Fascist militia sombrely walked the streets...