Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each side in Spain and consequently as to the proportion in which they should withdraw. Leftist sympathizers were already claiming that volunteers with the Rightists outnumber 4-to-1 volunteers with the Leftists, clamoring that therefore four must quit the Rightists for every one who quits the Leftists. Berlin threw in a small pair of pliers to the effect that both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini see no difference between a "volunteer" who is fighting as a soldier and one who is fighting as a propagandist-i.e., Der Führer and Il Duce want what they call...
...exhibit was arranged by Professor Heinrich W. Schaefer-Simmern, now at Cooper Union, New York, who for many years conducted a children's art center in Berlin. The items are chosen from the work of his former pupils in Germany...
...sensational as visit Adolf Hitler. Last week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly, grey-mustached Diplomat-of-the-Old-School Baron Constantin von Neurath in Berlin to sleek, smart Belgian Ambassador Viscount Jacques Davignon...
...phrase "military action directed against Germany" refers to Belgium's obligations under the League Covenant to support military sanctions against a state declared an aggressor. European observers opined that delay in concluding the new agreement has been caused by Berlin efforts to edge Belgium away from the League. These failed because, as a price for the Anglo-French release, Belgium had promised to stick by her League commitments...
Hitler and Mussolini dislike the League of Nations but the suggestion of Horthy was believed in Budapest not to displease Berlin or Rome. His Serene Highness proposed that there be a European League, an Asiatic League and an American League -each to mind its own business. Anyone who knows Admiral Horthy is familiar with his sulphurous epithets for Stalin, and the Soviet Union-since two-thirds of its area is in Asia-would "naturally" belong only to his Asiatic League. The U. S. would be parked in the American League. Thus the European League would be chiefly a cozy corner...