Word: conscription
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...estimates indicate that China has 35 field armies, each numbering four divisions, or 40,000 men. The Chinese infantryman is armed with a stamped burp gun of a simple type that has a fast rate of fire but an exceedingly bad reputation for accuracy. He is most often a conscript and is carefully chosen...
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, fights the class war at an R.A.F. base during a conscript training cycle. The play is good-humored, brisk, abrasive, and a scorching evening of theater...
...collaboration with the Germans, which he never denied. And what, if anything, he accomplished for France. Laval, to the last, insisted that he made the occupation easier-by keeping Hitler from planting a terrorist German regime in France as he did in Holland, by dragging his feet in dispatching conscript French workers to Germany, by getting prisoners of war repatriated, by fighting to protect French Jews. "You don't save France," he reproached the Gaullists, "by quitting her soil...
...Determined to raise a conscript army in addition to the existing workers' militia, Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's regime sent out draft orders to 524,000 men. The move provoked a rare outburst of vocal opposition. Ex-servicemen wrote indignant letters to the press recalling their pledge-signed when they were released from Soviet P.W. camps-never to bear arms again. In embarrassed newspeak, Communist officials reassured the veterans that they "need not worry about breaking the pledge. You are being called to protect freedom, to help the Soviet Union protect the working class...
...were setting the target date for a peace treaty between France and the F.L.N. in terms of days, instead of weeks or months. Reportedly, the French government was ready with stacks of freshly printed posters announcing the ceasefire. One poster showed a Moslem F.L.N. soldier and a French army conscript shaking hands under the legend: "Peace in Algeria...