Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stronger. He showed surprising speed for a man of his size and revealed himself to be an accomplished swordsman." It was vital to observe last week how blunt-how surcharged with what was evidently a feeling of Might-were the summaries given to correspondents in Rome and Berlin of what Mussolini and Göring talked about and agreed on during the business intervals of a round of Italian fetes for General-Oberst und Frau Göring, she the plump, onetime "State Actress of Prussia," Emmy Sonnemann. It amounted to this...
Tough, triumphant and breathing not Butter but Might was the interview which Benito Mussolini gave to Adolf Hitler's personal Berlin newsorgan Volkischer Beobachter. Almost without exception every German has to read this paper and they knew Hitler must approve or he would have never ordered printed what Mussolini said. It knocked into a cocked hat any false notion that the recent British-Italian "friendship accord" (TIME, Jan. 11) would act as a brake on German efforts to ensure White victory in Spain...
...newsorgans roared that "the Red agents of Moscow" must not be permitted to remain in Spain, and raised the issue of the Bank of Spain's great gold hoard, now seized and in large measure cached abroad in bank accounts of members of Spain's Red Cabinet. Berlin and Rome thought something should be done about that. Neutral diplomats thought Der Führer and Il Duce, by the conditions they laid down, were simply throwing the whole issue of intervention in Spain back into the hands of London's luckless 27-nation Non-intervention Committee...
...night before the wedding Dutch prudence caused both Deutschland Über Alles and the Horst Wessel song to be played at a gala theatrical evening for the royal couple, while Dutch indignation sent speeding to Berlin an extremely stiff note in which Her Majesty's Government demanded that the German Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain...
...moved on, to Vienna, to Berlin, where she got a job on a music paper...