Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Welch Fusiliers have so spelled their name since the 17th Century. The spelling was officially confirmed by a British Army order in 1920, in recognition of the regiment's services during the World...
After dealing briefly with the traditions of national service (". . . the Ancient and Britons the had fine a old military Army loyalties organization . (" . . . . .") pride in his own corps, regiment, or unit is the outstanding characteristic of the British soldier . . ."), the booklet launches into the ticklish questions of discipline and saluting: "There is nothing in the least servile or derogatory in the custom. The the salute is a mutual gesture of respect to King's uniform...
...Indalecio Prieto, General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio de Aguirre...
...above report is an invention. But so was the report published by Paris newspapers that four Italian soldiers of the 27th Infantry Regiment had presented themselves to the French military authorities . . . saying that they had not had enough to eat in Italy...
Goose-stepping Nazis have long marched smartly to the brassy, thumpy music of the Badenweiler march. No. 256 in the catechism of German Army marches, it was composed on the battlefield in 1914 by Bandmaster Georg Furst of Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Regiment. Herr Hitler first heard it at the Munich Hofbrauhaus, whose themesong it was. Bawled out by leather-lunged Bavarians while beer mugs banged the tables, the Badenweiler soon became a favorite of Fiihrer Hitler.* Later as a prop for such doggerel...