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...desperate is the War Ministry that parents, wives, sweethearts of likely young men are being conducted on special tours through barracks. To these ladies "the advantages of a soldier's life" are explained. They are told that son, husband or fiance will have an equal vote with the rest of his barrack comrades as to what they shall eat. A vote against prunes, for example, will banish that fruit from Tommy Atkins' table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: King & Primes | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...cannot agree to reduce our period of military training much, owing to the varying character of our troops. Some of them require much training. Our mountaineers with hairy ears at first refuse to wear soldiers' boots and our fishermen cannot soon learn to sleep in iron barrack bedsteads because the steel springs tickle them. Therefore Japan cannot accept the amendment proposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Stabilization of Armaments | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...Well, if I may?" said once omnipotent Dr. Irigoyen humbly and, as the officer nodded, he put on his hat. On certificate of the garrison physician that he really had pneumonia, El Hombre went not to jail but into a barrack bed. Pen and paper were brought. Feebly but without hesitation the sick man wrote his resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Biggest Revolution | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...huge-voiced, he toured Russia with lean, shrill Trotsky, the organ- izing genius who created the Red Army -today largest on earth.-To the soldiers the statesman would speak in his curt, compelling voice. Then, towering up from nowhere, the poet would take the platform, roar out his latest barrack-room ballad, put fight into the then ragged troops who were battling for the life of the Red State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Kipling | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Unser Anton von Galgotzy hated to write. When he was Austria's Quartermaster-General a Colonel sent him a fourpage document, in triplicate, filled with reasons why he should be supplied with a clock for his barrack square. Unser Anton's reply: "No Money?No Clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Unser Anton | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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