Word: militiaization
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With the thoroughness that has marked all Italian road-building enterprises since the days of Gaius Julius Caesar, Mussolini massed 100,000 Italian workmen, organized them as units of the Fascist Militia to give them dignity in the eyes of Ethiopia's Semitic blackamoors, set them to work digging...
General Franco's headquarters declared that one Leftist force of 500 militia had been cut down to. 14 survivors and claimed Miaja's offensive was costing "astronomical losses." Miaja relaxed censorship to permit Madrid correspondents to cable human interest stories of the killing in action of three U. S. volunteers who died last week for Leftist Spain with their "home addresses not listed": Jean Bronstein, Dave Walbo and Ray Peters. Trooper Larry O'Toole of Jersey City said he was wounded not in action but emerging from a store, his tunic stuffed with tomatoes and a bottle...
When dynamic, new Premier Negrin of the Spanish Leftists made his flying visit to Paris fortnight ago, passionately imploring aid (TIME, July 12). the canny French General Staff reputedly urged that he test and prove the present fitness of Spain's Leftist militia by ordering a full-scale offensive. Last week Premier Negrin, at Valencia, was at the controls of a Leftist offensive which sent 30,000 militia rushing out of Madrid in heroic, bloody efforts to dislodge decisively the besieging Rightists...
...Warren station to give himself up walked Gus Hall, accusing Republic Steel and its allies of an "unadulterated frame-up." Meantime Republic's plant at Canton where some 2,000 workers had been interned for a month was reopened, and 3,000 of Governor Davey's militia stood by in Cleveland for the reopening of four more Republic plants...
...rout at Guadalajara, but in Bilbao itself Rightist General José Fidel Davila, knowing the growing unpopularity of all foreign troops with Spaniards of either side, was careful to keep the Black Arrow Italian division well in the background. It was the red berets of the Carlist Royalist militia that first appeared in the streets, patrolled the city...