Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that, if any Eastern European State burst out of its frontiers, the others would join in squelching it. Adolf Hitler refused to have anything to do with such a pact, and Berlin's influence in Warsaw made Poland turn it down...
...turned and of such reasonable length as to amaze many Germans and lead to rumors that some be-monocled old-school diplomat of the Wilhelmstrasse must write them. But Adolf Hitler confronted face to face by a foreigner is also different from Adolf Hitler overpowering a dazzled German. To Berlin last week, hastily summoned from Paris, hurried Paris-Midi's correspondent de luxe, M. Bertrand de Jouvenel, son of the late, great French Senator & Ambassador Henri de Jouvenel. In Paris the Chamber had just voted to ratify a Franco-Soviet military alliance (see p. 18). Herr Hitler...
...breath declared that he does not retract one word of his domestic incitements to Germans to crush and conquer France and yet spoke as though he had made specific offers to France looking toward eternal amity. If any such offers have been made, the French Foreign Office and the Berlin Embassy of France have never disclosed what they are and neither has Adolf Hitler. The half-amazed, half-angry reaction of the Paris Cabinet last week was to inform the world press that Ambassador André François-Poncet will be ordered to call upon Foreign Minister Constantin...
Though the Philharmonic directors had chosen a musician of outstanding ability, their announcement had instant and stormy repercussions. Some recalled the speech Herr Furtwängler made in Berlin four years ago when he referred to U. S. orchestras as "pet puppies which one keeps without inner necessity." Others pronounced him a slave to Nazidom, objected because he had been slow to protest when Jewish musicians were exiled from Germany, that the complaint he finally did register was either softened or withdrawn. Same day that he received his Philharmonic appointment Furtwängler was reinstated as director of the Prussian State...
With courses ranging from "Political Thought in Greek Literature from Homer to Plato" by Werner Jaeger, of the University of Berlin, to some on propaganda methods of modern dictators and Roosevelt's agricultural policies, the Summer School will open its sixty-seventh session by offering the most varied and complete program in its history...