Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin last week young Lee resented being called "a go-between for anybody." Cried he: "Father's $25,000 contract with the German dye trust calls merely for giving his best advice on methods of improving German-American relations. This is a perfectly business-like contract...
...Germany adjoining France and Belgium. The new scheme fathered by Comrade Litvinoff and M. Barthou is to fix the other frontiers of Germany by an Eastern Locarno. This scheme in embryonic verbal form was outlined to the Hitler Government by Comrade Litvinoff the last time he passed through Berlin. Hotly German Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath cried "Nein!" That rebuff made it necessary to drag in Great Britain as a stern godfather able to impress Adolf Hitler...
...conclusion, Sir John read to the House a cablegram from Premier Mussolini throwing Italy's full weight into the scale with Britain, France and Russia. Playing his stern godfather role to the limit Sir John cabled to Berlin and Warsaw, instructing His Majesty's ambassadors in the two capitals to bring the Eastern Locarno strongly to the attention of those governments. Poland, which must do as France and Russia wish in any case, was thus subjected to formal urging so as to avoid seeming to crack down exclusively on Adolf Hitler...
...Berlin the Nazi Press all but screamed despair. "This system of treaties," said the Berliner Tageblatt, "means the attainment of French dominance over Europe with the assent of Russia and Poland." In his personal newsorgan the No. 2 Nazi, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, raged against "This fad for pacts, this pactomania!" In another groaning outburst the Berliner Tageblatt declared: "Thus France has arrived at last where Clemenceau wanted...
Since the Reichstag Building mysteriously went up in flames soon after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Berlin's vast Kroll Opera House was pressed into service last week by Speaker Göring. In a quarter-mile-wide cordon around it he threw his police and black-jacketed S. S. Storm Troops. Sweating carpenters rushed up a huge banner over the impromptu Reichstag portals: WE FIGHT AND PRAY FOR ADOLF HITLER...