Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blacked out. Coffee was forbidden to all but soldiers, gasoline to all but State officials and the military. All private motor travel was forbidden after September 3. Then, after the neutrality decision, the terrifying atmosphere was relaxed. Italy was ready to defend herself if attacked, was the word. Command of Italy's armies was divided between General Graziani, no disciple of the Germans, and Crown Prince Umberto, no favorite of Mussolini's but a great favorite (as his father's son) with the people...
With all in readiness along her Maginot Line for heavy assault on Germany's western front, an empire ruling France was also exceedingly busy overseas. Out of retirement, to go to Syria and take supreme command of an Allied campaign with Great Britain, Turkey and perhaps Greece, Premier Daladier called France's smart little General Maxime Weygand...
...Producer Wilcox to show him vainly pleading for Edith Cavell with the German authorities on behalf of his ailing chief, Minister Brand Whitlock. In one instance Producer Wilcox rejected history as too melodramatic. One member of the Cavell firing squad, a private named Rammler, refused to carry out his command, followed Nurse Cavell before his comrades' guns. In the picture Edith Cavell dies alone...
Other correspondents may be lucky enough to send such stories of this war, but it is not likely, for, 24 hours after war began last week, censorship had clamped down over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front and that all those now in military areas must leave. War communiqués would be issued once a day. From time to time groups of correspondents would be taken "wherever activities were especially interesting." Berlin censored all dispatches, but correspondents reported no evidence that they had been suppressed...
Even as a democrat, General Carpenter will have a wide command, for his 27,000 subordinate officers use 104 languages, work in 97 countries. Throughout the world the Army has an estimated 3,000,000 active members (240,000 in the U. S.), over $100,000,000 worth of property. Primarily a religious body, its evangelism marches hand in hand with its social work. An Army officer's commission is legal U. S. equivalent to a minister's ordination...