Word: recruits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time & again the Legion has been bled white, but the world's hopeless and desperate have always poured in to swell its numbers. The recruit applying at Sidi-bel-Abbès needs no identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary...
Tact for le tombeau. France pays her foreign fighters little ($3.89 a month for a recruit, $14.20 for a veteran of five years), and sends them to fight her toughest fights. No U.S.O. benefits or Coca-Cola bottling plants follow the Legion into battle. Old punishments like le tombeau (burial in sand up to the neck without food or water) and la crapaudine (24 hours in the sun with arms and legs tied together behind the back*) are no longer in official use, but discipline is still stern and often meted to a whole company...
Adds Chambers: "In the 19305 the revolutionary mood had become so acute . . . that the Communist Party could recruit its agents, not here and there, but by scores within the Government of the U.S. . . . Between the years 1930 and 1948, a group of almost unknown men and women, Communists or close fellow travelers, or their dupes, working in the U.S. Government or in some singular unofficial relationship to it . . . affected the future of every American now alive . . . Their names, with half a dozen exceptions, still mean little or nothing to the mass of Americans. But their activities, if only in promoting...
...Kameny goes even further in his attack: he says that there is no place for the military on any college campus. In fact he says it is an "abomination." Does Mr. Kameny not realize that an army must have officers? Where does he propose to recruit these men, in high schools? Or perhaps he more simply advocates abolishment of the United States Army as a whole...
Petitions submitted by the deadline hour yesterday were not enough to make a slate for the Radcliffe Class elections. Nancy Fisher, sophomore member of the Council, stated last night that student government members are attempting to recruit more candidates...