Word: berchtesgaden
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Eggs, Baskets, Bets. Last week the "guardian" was playing the Pilsudski game for all it was worth. Having recently visited Führer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready...
...proud of the way its diplomats did their jobs during the trying month of September 1938. Most notable group to be singled out on the King's New Year's honors list last week were men who commanded Britain's diplomatic front-line trenches from Berchtesgaden to Munich...
...Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
Hitler-"Ah, my friend, if you had seen me at Berchtesgaden. I took him by the lapels. I shook him like a plum tree. I spoke coldly of destroying London and Paris...
...what is an entertaining but not very profound analysis, Mann describes Spanish non-intervention as a "transparent, disingenuous comedy," and terms it merely the first step in the cumulative, knavery which led to Berchtesgaden; the war scare, he says, was merely a cruel theatrical joke played on the masses of people, straining their nerves to the cracking point until they would overlook Czechoslovakia's betrayal in their gratitude for the avoidance...