disbandment

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But wait: how does the Great Disbandment of Aught-Four figure into that?

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011

Last week this problem was being tackled in Shansi by able Dr. H. H. Kung, Disbandment Commissioner Extraordinary, unique in prestige as he is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius.

From Time Magazine Archive

Recently the leading Nationalist commanders were summoned to a "Disbandment Conference;" reached tentative agreement to cut the military establishment from 1,500,000 to 800,000 men.

From Time Magazine Archive

Disbandment and readjustment, to a civil basis, was then in order.

From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Smith, Henry Bascom