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...consecrate an issue of Think to the Nazi Reich. They hoped he would speak up loudly in behalf of shipping some Kentucky gold to Germany, and they felt that as President of the I.C.C. he rated the new "Merit Cross" just created by Adolf Hitler and first bestowed on Benito Mussolini (TIME, June 14). Nazis Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Hitler, Göring and Goebbels) turned out in Berlin to attend the first session of the I.C.C. and not only Mr. Watson but scores of other delegates gave the Nazi salute. But, though nearly everyone except Adolf Hitler applauded...
When the German Cabinet convened, the Führer spoke with rising fervor for nearly an hour and a half. The condensed official summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...
Wherever he goes, industrious, well-groomed William Philip Simms, Foreign Editor of the Scripps-Howard press, seems to instill a love of peace, perhaps because he is famed for prophecies of gloom and war. He interviewed Dictator Benito Mussolini month ago and that modern Caesar, instead of growling fresh warning to the world, suggested dovelike that President Roosevelt should arrange an arms limitation conference. Last week Mr. Simms reported that he had seen Premier Leon Blum in Paris. Gazing upon the trees and lawns of Matignon Palace he had heard the gospel of peace preached once more. Europe, declared...
...Awarded. Benito Mussolini, 54, Premier of Italy, and his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister; by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany; first two decorations as Knight Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of the German Eagle...
There, of course, the repercussions were violent. Leaves were reported canceled throughout the entire Nazi navy, all over the world. Hour after hour Adolf Hitler conferred with his army, navy and state officers. Urgent telephone calls went through to Rome and Forli where Benito Mussolini was vacationing. Depressed Pope Pius (on his 80th birthday) went into retirement, fainted, remained unconscious for 20 minutes...