Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...form of $120,000,000 credit was served last March to Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha. Beady-eyed, flap-chinned General Goés Monteiro was on a military mission, returning the visit U. S. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall had just paid him. That capable soldier-diplomat was dispatched to Brazil after authoritarian-minded Goés Monteiro began toasting the discipline, glory and honor of the German Army and had accepted an invitation to review Nazi troops. Last week the U. S. War Department, announcing its plans to toast Goes Monteiro this week, disclosed that instead...
Like a good fellow, the War Office laughs off the "unreliable" information about the Army possessed by most civilians: "... being a shy and rather self-conscious nation, and disliking any display of sentiment, we endeavour to conceal our real feelings towards such a calling as the soldier's by being flippant about it - cracking jokes on the subject - jokes about red tape, brass-hats, bully beef, and serjeant-majors. All of which is harmless enough...
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...
Economically independent conscripts are asked not to swank: "Let every soldier, whoever he is, try to make his pay and rations suffice. In this way we shall arrive not only at equality of status but equality of service...
...each. If a man is in any private trouble of his own, he has merely to ask for an interview with his officer (through the medium of a Serjeant or other non-commissioned officer) and it will be granted at once. Finally, in action, his officer never asks a soldier to go anywhere he himself is not prepared to lead the way. Such traditions as these are the pride of the British Army, and the envy of every other...