Soldiers, Sailors, B-Girls, and Out-of-Bounders

2021 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-86
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Color Line ◽  
World War ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
North Beach ◽  
Second World ◽  
Sexual Experimentation

As the Second World War led to massive migrations, port cities swelled with workers and military personnel. Newly arrived residents sought leisure and social connections, and entertainment districts, such as San Francisco’s Tenderloin, Fillmore, and North Beach, expanded as well. Freed from the watchful eyes of hometown family and neighbors, many saw bars and nightclubs as sites of social and sexual experimentation. Military and municipal authorities, concerned to maintain both the racial color line and sexual discipline, began to monitor San Francisco’s intersectional nightspots. But nightspot owners and their patrons also pushed back, resulting in the formation of both formal and informal socially conscious networks and institutions that used entertainment districts as places of connection, protection, and liberation.

scholarly journals Religion, race, and the nation inLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, 1942–1943

Modern Italy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas G. Virtue
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
New Man ◽  
Second World ◽  
The Ideal

This paper examines intersections and divergences between Catholic universalism and Fascist ethno-nationalism in the pages ofLa Tradotta del Fronte Giulio, a satirical weekly newspaper for Italian military personnel in occupied Yugoslavia during the Second World War. Military propagandists appealed to grassroots Catholicism to motivate demoralised Italian soldiers in the last year of war against the communist-led Yugoslav partisan movement. Their use of Catholic themes revealed overlapping values but also apparent incongruities between Christianity, Fascism, and Italian military culture that had been evident throughout theventennio. While Catholic anti-communism blended relatively seamlessly with nationalist-Fascist anti-Slavism to depict the partisan enemy as a dehumanised Other, the use of conventional piety and Christian humanitarianism in the army’s propaganda contradicted Fascist and military concepts of the ideal Italian ‘new man’. In the process, military propagandists sowed the seeds for thebrava gentemyth that dominated postwar memory and national identity in Italy.

Active co-operation with the East European countries

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 379-380
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Countries ◽  
General Description ◽  
World War ◽  
European Origin ◽  
East European ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Second World

Continuing our general description of the activities of the Central Tracing Agency at the headquarters of the ICRC at Geneva, we would point out that requests for information concerning military personnel and civilians of East European origin, missing during the course of the Second World War continue to reach Geneva in fairly large numbers.

Gunboat Diplomacy's Last Fling in the New World: The British Seizure of San Quintin, April 1911

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-543
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
New World ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
World War ◽  
British Foreign Policy ◽  
Second World

In considering acts of military intervention by foreign powers which occurred in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution, one is apt to think of the years 1914, 1916 and 1919, when U.S. forces invaded or occupied portions of Mexican territory. There was, however, one case of intervention of this sort during the revolution in which U.S. military personnel were not involved–the landing of a small party of British marines belonging to the H.M.S. “Shearwater” at the port of San Quintín on the northwest coast of the Baja Californian peninsula in April 1911.The British landing at San Quintm constituted a vestige or remnant of "gunboat diplomacy", an aspect of English foreign policy that had originated in the age of Palmerston and which reflected the unrivaled naval supremacy enjoyed by Great Britain during the period extending from the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 to the end of the Second World War. The episode represented, in a rather overt way, the hard-nosed attitude characteristic of British foreign policy at that time with regards to Latin America in general and other so-called "backward" regions of the globe.

In the German Federal Republic: The maintenance of military graves in accordance with the Geneva Conventions

1962 ◽  
Vol 2 (20) ◽  
pp. 581-591
Author(s):  
Rudolf Von Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
German Federal Republic ◽  
World War ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
French Military ◽  
Second World

The Central Tracing Agency in Geneva has always had, amongst many other tasks in time of war, that of tracing the graves of missing military personnel. If we are more especially considering the Second World War, we can see that this activity began for the Central Prisoners of War Agency (its official title at that time), when hundreds of thousands of regimental enquiries were opened for French prisoners of war in Germany, in order to discover the fate of French military personnel missing during the summer of 1940.

Gender and the Second World War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Peniston-Bird ◽  
Emma Vickers
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

Kapitalistische Krisen mit und ohne systemischer Herausforderung.

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (185) ◽  
pp. 543-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
World Market ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Deep Penetration ◽  
World War ◽  
Major Overhaul ◽  
Domestic Markets ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Class Power ◽  
Second World

This article draws on Marxist theories of crises, imperialism, and class formation to identify commonalities and differences between the stagnation of the 1930s and today. Its key argument is that the anti-systemic movements that existed in the 1930s and gained ground after the Second World War pushed capitalists to turn from imperialist expansion and rivalry to the deep penetration of domestic markets. By doing so they unleashed strong economic growth that allowed for social compromise without hurting profits. Yet, once labour and other social movements threatened to shift the balance of class power into their favor, capitalist counter-reform began. In its course, global restructuring, and notably the integration of Russia and China into the world market, created space for accumulation. The cause for the current stagnation is that this space has been used up. In the absence of systemic challenges capitalists have little reason to seek a major overhaul of their accumulation strategies that could help to overcome stagnation. Instead they prop up profits at the expense of the subaltern classes even if this prolongs stagnation and leads to sharper social divisions.

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