Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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France started the policy of conscription in 1798 in the aftermath of the Revolution. Oddly enough, it was the revolutionary cry of equality-even equality in the matter of dying for one's country-which replaced the professional soldier with the soldier drawn from public lists. Napoleon Bonaparte, "Son...
Universal conscription had its genesis not only in the French Revolution but in the cheap rifle, which could be produced by the millions. With more expensive automatic rifles, machine guns, tanks and airplanes threatening to make the rifle obsolete, many a military theorist (and especially British theorists) has held that...
Because the Daughters of the American Revolution recently denied the use of their Washington hall to Negro Singer Marian Anderson, and because of their consistently illiberal stand on political, economic and constitutional questions, we recommend that their name be changed to the Defenders of the American Reaction.
Never disparaged was Gouverneur Morris' earlier record. He was spokesman at 26 for Washington at the Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down...
Prodding Louis XVI to accept a liberal constitution he argued that the French, having no such schooling in democracy as pre-Revolution Americans, would first swing to bloody revolutionary extremes, then fall into the hands of unscrupulous dictators. French rulers, said Morris, had so corrupted the French masses that they...