Word: militiamen
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...dared not assert their authority
or exact their usual tithes from restless Berber tribes. The new French
Resident General, Andre Louis Dubois, had turned over much of the
police power to Moroccans, concentrating his 100,000 troops in the
openly rebellious regions of the North. Neither 20,000 Moroccan
militiamen nor the private guard forces of nationalist political
parties were enough to keep order. One week's incidents in Morocco:
Between midnight and 2 a.m. one October day in 1936, a line of trucks two blocks long stood outside the ornate portals of the Bank of Spain, in Madrid's Calle Alcalá. Bank employees, under the guard of picked Communist militiamen, loaded the trucks with 510 tons of gold, in bullion and coins-the bulk of the Loyalist gold hoard-worth 1.734,000,000 gold pesetas ($566 million). Although Spain's civil war was only three months old, Nazi intervention had made the Soviet-backed Loyalist position shaky...
Governor Slaton knew that he was committing political suicide, but he was not prepared for the violence of the reaction. In Atlanta, a mob marched up Peachtree Street to the Governor's home, had to be driven off by armed militiamen. In Marietta (where Mary Phagan was born and buried), another mob of some 40 unmasked men was organized, drove off to Milledgeville penitentiary, where Frank was imprisoned. Brandishing guns, they forced their way inside and dragged Leo Frank from his bed. Then they drove the 150 miles back to Marietta and hanged Leo Frank from a pine tree...
Grenades in the Pocket. Three years ago, when the well-equipped and tightly trained Communists launched a big push, they slammed into the Catholic militia (and the other anti-Red forces) like a snowplow. Twenty outposts manned by the militiamen defected within 48 hours...
Moving South. After the fall of Dien-bienphu and the general French collapse, Le Huu Tu and several other bishops forfeited the last hope of maintaining their armies, were evacuated to the South. The Catholic militiamen have been moving south ever since, womenfolk, children and baggage piled high on carts and pedicabs...