Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador to Brazil) to be Ambassador to Belgium, Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador to Cuba) to be Ambassador to Brazil, J. Butler Wright (Minister to Czechoslovakia) to be Ambassador to Cuba, William H. Hornibrook (onetime Minister to Iran) to be Minister to Costa Rica, Ferdinand L. Mayer (Counselor of Embassy in Berlin) to be Minister to Haiti, Leland Harrison (Minister to Rumania) to be Minister to Switzerland, Hugh R. Wilson (Minister to Switzerland) and George S. Messersmith (Minister to Austria) to be Assistant Secretaries of State...
...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...
...swallow last week, or take a dominant line with Hitler & Mussolini. These dictators had meanwhile announced that, while Germany and Italy would not withdraw from the London Nonintervention Committee on Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would be willing to fill any gaps in the patrol-a suggestion which Der Führer and II Duce angrily rejected within 48 hours-and Mr. Chamberlain went on to make a speech soon warmly praised...
...Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee which arrived from Germany to replace the recently bombed Deutschland. London rumors had high naval officers in Berlin protesting to Der Führer that in sending his best ships into Mediterranean waters dominated by France and Britain he was risking that they might be "trapped." If there were such protests, Adolf Hitler ignored them, relying upon heavy concentrations of Italian warships off the Balearics and Eastern Spain...
...Foreign Office resents his interference. He sent Lord Halifax to Berlin without consulting the permanent officials...