Word: militiamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish refugees in France (82,500 militiamen, 100,000 old men, women & children) 40,500 have been absorbed by industry, agriculture and public works projects, the remaining 142,000 are in concentration camps. Almost certainly no refugees have been accepted in the French fighting forces...
...between those who want to stay neutral in the war and those who want to join Germany. Meanwhile, his power has noticeably waned. For one reason or another he handed over to the Prince of Piedmont the command of half the Italian Army. The pay of his own Fascist militiamen, who formed the regime's counter-revolutionary force, was suddenly reduced from eight lire (40?) a day to one lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi to a lira. Such dissident Fascists as Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya...
...Editors in Italy do not refer to Il Duce as a grandfather; they understand that the picture of Signor Mussolini slipping gracefully into old age is not for Fascist consumption. Featured instead is the fact that Il Duce pilots his own plane, rides horseback, swims, skis, can lead his militiamen in a half-mile trot or a goose step. The Dictator's hair is cut close to his head so that neither increasing greyness nor baldness is noticeable. His physical endurance is still greater than that of most of the younger Fascists of his entourage...
...Auxilio Social. Uniforms on an individualistic people, children marching and chanting in unison the Falangist slogan "Produce! Produce! Produce!" Madrid workmen, traditional Leftists, parading with hammers, wrenches, shovels, trowels, to show their respective trades-all this said that the old Spain was dead, dead as the 400,000 militiamen who were killed trying to keep its present Government from coming into power...
...could see that the money was being spent for something. Increase for the Army-which gets $1,136,305,000-was announced appropriately as young conscripts spent their last day at home, before they set out for six months' training. Few of the 30,000 20-year-old militiamen - first of 200,000 drafted-had ever been away from home for more than a fortnight, found little heel-clicking or saluting at camps, were informally introduced to their officers, given a razor, shaving brush, comb, toothbrush and a post card, ordered to drop their families a note saying they...