Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, packed away his 21 war medals until the Government pays the Soldier Bonus...
...drawing that was definitely bad as well as careless. He never developed a pat technique, always forced his style to follow his understanding of the facts. From first to last the two pictures that his hand absentmindedly formed first were of a pretty boy and of an old soldier with a nutcracker profile...
...Reichswehr, no soldier in active service may marry without his commanding officer's permission, nor may he marry a Jewess or other than Aryan. Those even in the reserve who do so will lose their military rank. German citizens living in foreign countries are still liable for conscription. Pure-blooded Jews, criminals and the morally unfit are excluded from active service. The only ones exempted from military service are candidates for the Catholic priesthood who have already received at least a subdeacon's ordination. Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have...
...expressly stated in the new army law that no soldier in active service may be a member of a political party, the National Socialist included. At the end of his active service the conscript will join, not the Brown Shirts or other private political armies, but a new veterans' organization known as the Soldiers' League, sworn to "closest co-operation with the active troops and military authorities and loyalty by former soldiers to their War Minister, who possesses the Führer unlimited confidence...
...murder in the first degree. But in peacetime, when thoughts of the last war can be retroactively sober, it is possible to analyze the impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko (Men in War), France's Henri Barbusse (Le Feu), England's C. E. Montague (Disenchantment), Siegfried Sassoon (Memoirs...