Word: getting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the King's police went out in typical Balkan fashion to get blood for blood. They began a man hunt for Iron Guards in every part of Rumania, but in Bucharest they put on a grisly show. The assassination had occurred at 1:30 p. m. and punctually at 11 p. m. the same night seven young Iron Guards who had confessed to the murder of Little Hercules were brought to the spot where the assassination had taken place, forced to reenact it under police floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each...
...help him if he talked tough to the Allies. But Partner Hitler had taken on another partner, Joseph Stalin; with him had carved Poland in two and threatened all the Balkans, where Italy has "vital interests." It was against every historical precedent for Italy to let Germany and Russia get away with the Balkans, but, on the other hand, if Germany knocked out Britain and France, Italy could clean up in the Mediterranean. Foxy Benito Mussolini took counsel with himself and at week's end delivered a speech that was a masterpiece of straddling, far removed from the blood...
...Japanese Bar Association discovered a legalistic basis for Japanese demands that Europeans get out of China...
Swapped Siege. Before the Military Division line was drawn, the German Army held advance positions in Poland many miles beyond it and was besieging LwÓw. This siege they proceeded to hand over to the Russians, since they were now to get LwÓw. German officers ordered their troops out of entrenched positions surrounding the city, and into the same trenches grimly went Red Army soldiers, while the business of shelling LwÓw was taken over by Soviet artillery. In the week's only show of cross-purposes between Berlin and Moscow, Nazi newsorgans claimed that...
...were being shipped off constantly to work in Germany, mostly on farms but also in unskilled factory jobs where it would be difficult for them to commit acts of sabotage. They were promised pay at 60% of prevailing German wage scales, and Nazi authorities rushed about trying to get their ragged prisoners-many Polish soldiers had thrown away their uniforms-adequate clothes, shoes and overcoats for the winter rains were beginning, epidemics were feared...