Word: conscription
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that we wait until an issue arises before forming such committees for defense of academic freedom, which may be interpreted as the freedom to study as well as the freedom of students and teachers to speak their minds. Issues enough are at hand. The Industrial Mobilization Plan, which would conscript youth for work in factories in war time, is in the hands of the President: there has been a steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady shrinkage of funds for education and as steady an in crease of funds for armaments; and right now the Dies Committee...
...France's No. 1 Soldier, Gamelin has continued the Maginot Line to the sea, mechanized the Army to a point below Germany's but at which he thinks it can be most effective, extended the conscript period from a year, to 18 months, to two years-this over the bitter opposition of most French politicians. He has confidence in the Army he has built. During the Munich crisis he believed the French Army was ready to fight, and General Gamelin quietly went to London to tell the statesmen so. He got about the same attention that...
...subsided. Sir John has bottled up all the potential refugee cash that did not escape before. Only bounders will persist in selling pounds and buying dollars, but the British Government has marvelously effective ways of cracking down by the use of "influence." Thus one month after Britain had begun conscripting men, preparations were being made to conscript wealth, too-by consent...
...yesterday's grave event" he had suddenly canceled his trip to. the U. S. to see President Roosevelt and the New York World's Fair. Simultaneously Mr. de Valera informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that his Government would take a "serious view" of any attempt to conscript Irishmen, whether they live in Eire, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales...
Milquetoast. For over a year, Britain's Labor Party has urged the Government to set up a Ministry of Supply-an agency to conscript business for war just as the Army may conscript men. Last week such a Ministry was finally created. In wartime it will see that Government orders get precedence, that businesses get fair but limited profits. All England wondered whether Neville Chamberlain would give the Ministry to an aggressive man of action-Winston Churchill, for example. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons and announced that the job would...