Infantry watch as a Whippet tank advances toward a German machine-gun nest. LEGION MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
It was another year of blockbuster speeches at this year’s annual general meeting of the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA), held Feb. 23-24 at the Chateau Laurier in downtown Ottawa.
The CDA is an umbrella group of defence organizations, the largest of which is The Royal Canadian Legion.
The conference began with an early keynote speech by Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy, who spoke about “the broad challenge of making the globe we inhabit more secure.”
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