Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toughest job of Poland's cultivated soldier-aristocrats is to maintain a dictatorship based on the personality of the late great Marshal Josef Pilsudski. Excuse for the dictatorship is Poland's nightmare situation in European politics. Potent Germany on the west wants to take a slice of Poland's territory; potent Soviet Russia on the east wants to overthrow Poland's economic system. Poland has a President and a Premier. But last week the Premier. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladkowski, proclaimed that henceforth Poland's No. 2 Man, second only to mild, scholarly President Ignacy Moscicki, will...
...shepherd named Abdul Ouab asked a French army captain in Algeria to think of some object in his Paris home. The soldier thought of a valuable family portrait. Instantly the picture appeared on the wall in Algeria; the stupefied Frenchman not only saw it but handled it. He cabled his parents in Paris. Back came the reply: "Portrait inexplicably stolen this morning. Police at work and Sûrete announces arrest of thief imminent...
...last week, the Imperial Government nervously sent before a firing squad fortnight ago Lieut. Colonel Saburo Aizawa, the "hero" who killed Director of Military Affairs General Tetsuzan Nagata last summer (TIME, Aug. 26). Before the firing squad blew his brains out, Hero Aizawa cried: "It is proper that a soldier should die to the sound of rifles. Flesh disintegrates but the soul lives on. Seven, even eight lives more will I devote to this imperial land...
...Steve Harvey of Dallas who enlisted in the Canadian forces at 13, transferred to a U. S. division later on, collected $782 as the youngest soldier to fight for the Allies...
...theme song of the Spanish-American War, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, lent itself naturally to the 1904 campaign of Theodore Roosevelt, but eight years later, for his Bull Moose campaign at "Armageddon," his marching song was Onward Christian Soldiers. In the intervening campaign, won by Taft in 1908, his lady admirers sang: Taft for Me, Taft for Me to the tune of Tammany. Woodrow Wilson scorned campaign songs, but in 1916 he was forced to listen often to I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier...