Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadians this week voted on the hotly argued proposition that would allow the Government to conscript men for overseas service (TIME, April 27). In this critical test of Canada's wartime unity, incomplete returns indicated a 7-to-3 victory for the Government-chiefly over the vote of French Canadians in Quebec, where rural balloting went heavily...
...odds on war between Japan and Russia before the end of 1942 shortened last week. From Chungking came word that the Japanese were speedily building defenses in Inner Mongolia, had already withdrawn some provincial-government departments behind the Great Wall. Allied Intelligence unearthed Jap plans to conscript native troops, to reinforce the army on the Manchukuoan-Siberian frontier...
...most of the show is just good everyday stuff: a comic or two, a short sports summary, some popular and semi-classical music, a novelty number here, a Hollywood star there. No one draws pay; no one rehearses. The procedure is to conscript one of the big weekly commercials immediately after it goes off the air, build a new show with added acts and performers, transcribe it, and send the wax discs to the short-wave stations for the Sunday broadcast...
Probably not even General Hershey realized the full implications of what he said. Congress is accustomed to appropriating billions of dollars, or conscripting a few millions of selected men for battle, but to conscript the entire able-bodied population for national service would make even Congress' heart skip a beat...
...with Hitler," said blond, blue-eyed Sir Walter Citrine, secretary of Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress (5,000,000 members). Yet last week found Cabinet, Press and Labor wrangling over Britain's toughest labor problem since the war's outbreak: Shall the Government continue to conscript skilled war-industry workers for the armed forces? Sir Walter Citrine said...