Word: test
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Staff, of which General Pershing is the head. In that way it first was linked with the General. The idea was that, inasmuch as our regular army is small (one-sixth of the nation's theoretical military strength) it would be well to have a test in which the auxiliary forces, national guard and reserves, should assemble and go through the first steps of mobilization which would be undertaken in time of war. Civilians were to be invited to participate, just as if they were enlisting, except that in this case they would become affiliated with military organizations...
...likened to a fire. We had to carry water in buckets to put out this fire. This has been a very expensive method. Now we think we have progressed and should have a volunteer fire department and a fire engine. We are now going to test the efficiency of the company and try out the hose we have acquired...
...Evian-les-Bains, France smothered Czecho-Slovakia, won the European Zone test...
...brought to my attention that your organization is profoundly concerned because of the assumption that the plans for a National Defense test on September 12 constitute a militaristic gesture. This assumption seems to be based chiefly on a confusion of terms. In some unofficial and entirely unauthorized way the defense test has been denominated "Mobilization Day." The Government did not do this. It would be proper to call it "Inspection Day." But it is not a mobilization, and the Government is not responsible for any such designation...
...This "defense test" is being opposed because it is recognized as a radical innovation in our national policy which has not been thoroughly considered by our people...