Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Survivors of the British steamer Sneaton told how they were forced at pistol-point to pose smiling in their life boat while U-boat officers took their pictures...
...officially said where the B. E. F. was stationed, but everyone knew: on France's low-lying Belgian border from Lille to Hirson, right where the "Old Contemptibles" took their stand 25 years ago. They were assigned this position because, if the Western Front develops a war of movement, the movement will most likely come through the Dutch-Belgian door. The B. E. F. consists of a dozen divisions of troops mostly mechanized and motorized. There is one vehicle for each six men. A break-through by the Germans anywhere would be most effectively rushed...
...Angly was further charmed when he discovered that the "Captain Cambridge" who, in a driving rain across muddy fields, showed him through a British blockhouse and then was left on duty there while his Colonel took the newsmen to cosy tea, was Queen Mary's nephew, Lord Frederick Cambridge...
Today, the might of Scandinavia has sadly withered. But last week powerful searchlights were turned on Stockholm's famed modernistic Town Hall and the massive Royal Palace as over 100,000 took their stand along the twinkling waterways and King Gustaf led his guests, after a State banquet, into the Royal Church. Solemnly the Archbishop of Sweden, Dr. Erling Eidem, prayed that the Scandinavian kings and President Kallio may receive "strength to wage the struggle against the forces of evil presently rampant in the world...
...buckled down during these years to problems of State. Of these the most pressing was the growing discontent of Norway under the Swedish Crown and there were plenty of Swedes with an Abraham Lincoln mentality who preferred civil war to permitting secession. On this issue the Crown Prince firmly took the stand he has maintained all his life, an enlightened attitude of calm neutrality (he has been 81 years a neutral) in which the prestige of the Crown was thrown on the side of letting the Norwegian people choose by peaceful ballot to go their...