Word: militiaization
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...Esther Junger, offers some truly brilliant choreography in the modern tones. The music is good and provides a satisfying rhythmic background. Among the more amusing song-offerings were Eve Arden's rippingly funny take-off on the American Legion, D. A. R. ladies, entitled "Send for the Militia," and Evelyn Dall's striking presentation of "Selling Sex." Avis Andrews' singing of "You Ain't So Hot," is very effective. Jimmy Save, the comic headliner, is well known for his pantomimic nonsense, which he presented with highly successful effect, running the gamut from starving wayfarer to bloated capitalist...
...France. President Clement was never more than a National Guard captain but his military traditions are as strong as his predecessor's. His father, the late Major General Charles M. Clement, was once commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard. His grandfather was also a general in the State militia, his great-grandfather a sergeant-major...
Ordinarily in April the delicate scent of almond blossoms wafts across Stresa's azure lake, agreeably perfuming the beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
Benito Mussolini has already mobilized over 600,000 Italian troops and militia since Herr Hitler started raising a German conscript army in violation of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) Last week M. Flandin decided that French youths of the class which has just finished its military training shall not return to their homes but remain under arms until further orders. Newly trustful of Italy since the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 14), France withdrew nearly 30,000 troops last week from her mountainous Italian frontier, sent them scurrying cross-country to the pleasant valleys and leafy woods Germans...
...modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage can be expected next? Il Duce is determined that none shall occur at Stresa...