Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...helped make the Versailles Treaty, was one of the planners of the Ethiopian campaign, introduced the goose step and forebade swearing in the Army, believes in lightning warfare. Pro-Axis, at least outwardly, he conferred with Germany's Chief of the High Command Wilhelm Keitel just before Italy took Albania...
These were not leaders to give Italy merely a negative neutrality. Freshly-manned, Italy turned at once to the Balkans: conversations led to an exchange of warm letters with Greece, notes which had the actual effect of a pact of friendship. Thus Italy took step No. 1 in the widely heralded effort to dominate the Balkans. Next step: talk with Bulgaria. This week Premier Mussolini's conference with his new Under Secretary of War, General Ubaldo Soddu, embraced "certain instructions to prepare and to enlarge" the Army...
Some years before World War I, the Kaiser took Queen Wilhelmina-a plump, sweet-faced young matron-out to his Army maneuvers. Intending to impress his little neighbor with Germany's military might, he pointed out to her a strapping unit of the Prussian Guard...
...Netherlands' border police last week took into custody Gerrit Albrink, 30, son of a Nazi member of the Dutch Parliament, employe of a German garage owner now serving with the Nazi Air Force. In Albrink's car when he tried to drive into Germany were an assortment of Dutch uniforms-soldiers', railroad guards', postmen's-obviously not intended for a fancy dress ball...
...Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop, V. C., honorary Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now 45, short, chubby, softspoken, he scarcely looks today like the fierce-flying Ace Bishop who shot down at least 72 German ships in 1914-18 and once took on an entire German airdrome singlehanded, strafing its squadron one by one as they tried to leave the ground...