whose recruits divided their time between normal agricultural activity and military service, reducing the fear (prevalent in the Nationalist areas) of young men being recruited to the army and leaving the family without a breadwinner. Rather than the Nationalist policy of trying (not always successfully) to redistribute grain to military families, the Communists sought to lessen the distance between military service and everyday rural life. In addition, until 1940, the Nationalists subsidized the economy of SGN with an injection of some C$600,000 (then US$180,000) per month, providing valuable
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