Word: militiaization
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Well-heeled Nazi organizers began to appear in Chust, capital of the Carpatho-Ukraine. A military mission arrived to teach the hastily arming Ruthenians the art of warfare. A Ukrainian "Free Corps" was formed, while the Carpatho-Ukrainian militia named their organization after Colonel Eugene Konovaletz, former Ukrainian leader murdered in Amsterdam last year when an assassin, rumored to be of the Soviet secret police, placed a time bomb in his overcoat pocket...
From the matter-of-fact voice of the militia officer who said he was at the crater caused by the cylinder and had everything under control, to the plaintive gasp of the last radio operator calling into a void, the story and production had grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked...
Occasion was the funeral of popular Captain Vicente de Eguía of the Militia, killed on the Ebro front...
...these the long indictment charged: "They provoked a real revolution in Catalonia [in May 1937], fought against the police and even managed to make an army division in which they had been carrying on their criminal work abandon the front." What had happened was that the extremely independent P.O.U.M. militia had refused to become absorbed in the new, unified and reformed People's Army on the Aragon front...
...another long enough to make a unanimous wry face at Joe Kennedy. In addition to being an implied slight to the 140,000 members of U. S. maritime unions, such schools might well become breeding places for finks (scabs). Had not Joe Kennedy himself once threatened that the naval militia might one day be called on to keep steam up during maritime strikes? But over Labor's objections, Congress last June wrote Joe Kennedy's suggestion into the Merchant Marine...