Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Red Cross was founded 75 years ago as an agency to care for wounded war combatants. Last week, at the quadrennial Red Cross conference, originally scheduled for Madrid, then shifted to London, the fighting soldier received little attention. Instead, the main conference topic was the protection of the noncombatant man, woman & child in time...
...French Parliament, Communist and Rightist deputies howled at each other over the question of aid to Leftist Spain, were prevented from fistfighting on the Chamber floor only by a hastily formed wall of old-soldier ushers. Speaker of the Chamber Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from...
...peoples, like the Poles and the Irish, kept alive their national culture, agitated for liberation. The World War and Woodrow Wilson gave them their chance. Three Czech patriots actually achieved the nation's independence: gaunt, bearded Philosophy Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, who died nine months ago; the Czech soldier-astronomer General Milan Stefánik, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1919 when freedom was in sight; and Eduard Benes...
...years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I put heart and soul into making Berlin a fitting capital of Prussia, but not until after the victorious war with France in 1871-when Bismarck founded the Second Reich, had King Wilhelm I proclaimed Emperor at Versailles-did Berlin assume world importance. Her population...
...Cavalry Regiment last week lost its bugler. Plumpish, firm-lipped Staff Sergeant Frank Witchey, 46 (The Army reckons him 48 because he lied about his age when he enlisted 30 years ago), doffed his uniform, retired. With his retirement, history turned a page. He sounded taps for the Unknown Soldier, for many an -Army brass hat, for Woodrow Wilson, William Jennings Bryan, Leonard Wood, William Howard Taft...