Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously. To him languages come easily and Italy's Foreign Minister was all set last week to converse with Dictator Adolf Hitler in the only language that statesman knows...
...years ago Adolf Hitler flew to Venice to clasp hands with Benito Mussolini. After a vegetarian lunch and a heart-to-heart the two Dictators found no matter of importance on which they could then cooperate. Meanwhile, Il Duce had conceived the project of making Italy, Britain, Germany and France the dominating hierarchy of Europe. These nations actually signed his Four-Power Pact only to quarrel over the Ethiopian war and Der Führer's tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles. Last week began a great new effort by Italy and Germany to erect a European hierarchy...
...Saturday, and Adolf Hitler is famed for springing what Nazis call his "Saturday surprises." Abruptly Der Führer sprang a public announcement of the first of five points of agreement secretly reached between Germany and Italy. "The Führer and Chancellor," he disclosed, "has informed the royal Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Ciano . . . that the Reich Government has decided formally to recognize the Italian Empire in Ethiopia...
...Storm Troopers killed in bloody German street brawls before the Nazis came to power. He laid another wreath on the monument marking the spot on which Government machine guns in 1923 opened fire on the "Beer Hall Putsch" followers of General Erich Ludendorff who marched on unscathed and Corporal Adolf Hitler who flung himself upon the ground, later escaped slightly wounded, only to be arrested and held for eight months in a fortress while he wrote Mein Kampf. In Munich, on this Nazi-hallowed ground, pink-cheeked Hitler Youths saluted Count Ciano and pink-cheeked Hitler Maidens offered him posies...
...Suddenly Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic campaign drove Composer Fritz Cohen from Germany. This compelled Kurt Jooss to go touring, although his dancers still needed more training. The troupe gained grace and prestige with the addition of Hans Zuellig, 22-year-old Swiss (The Big City) and pretty Noelle de Mosa, 19, a Java-born Dutch baroness. Both conform to the Jooss type, employ the widest and most theatrical use of pantomime...