Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a soldier on arrival in France "neglected" either to declare the jewels or to turn them in at the Consulate. French customs officers caught wind of the "smuggling," began a search. Seventy-six Loyalist officers and men were arrested, fined 18,000,000 francs and sentenced to jail terms ranging from one month to two years for evading customs laws. By last weekend the French Government was richer by some $397,000 worth of stones. It intended to apply the money thus raised to feeding the 380,000 Loyalist refugees it harbored. Last week 70,000 of the latter...
...home folks, the most popular reportage is done by the poets. No Japanese newspaper is complete without its sprinkling of wartime poetry. No battle is too insignificant, no soldier's deed too small to be unworthy of recording in the stylized, form-bound Japanese lyrics. Under this stimulus, the soldiers themselves have turned to writing poetry, and a favorite Japanese magazine stunt is to hold contests for soldier-poets...
...orchestra glided dreamily into the Barcarolle from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. A little man stood up, gave the Nazi salute, shouted: "Verboten!" The orchestra switched to My Hero, from Oscar Straus's The Chocolate Soldier. Up sprang the little man again. The orchestra burst into Mendelssohn's Wedding March. The little man jumped up for the third time, screamed "Verboten...
...stock picture of the Japanese soldier in China is a uniformed fanatic who is taught from birth that dying for his Emperor automatically gives him a ticket into the Shinto heaven. At home, his relatives are pictured as accepting with happy little Japanese smiles the news of his death at the front...
Salute to Freedom churns thus for 615 pages. A life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate and two legitimate children, lover of one woman who loves him for himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine...