Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days after Scripps-Howard newspapers' short chief, Roy W. Howard, scored an interview with the Emperor of Japan (see p. 37) his successor as president of United Press, Karl A. Bickel. was received in Berlin by Chancellor Hitler, put the pertinent question whether if Nazi nationalism should spread to other lands the result would be favorable to international peace. Coining a new paradox, Herr Hitler said. "The result would be 'International Nationalism' of the highest type throughout the world. . . . This would facilitate the solution of the most difficult problems...
...This must be run on the front page as an extra by all newspapers, with the heading RED AIR TEST OVER BERLIN...
...This afternoon a foreign plane of a type unknown in Germany appeared over Berlin and dropped handbills abusing the German Government. . . . This occurrence illuminates the strikingly untenable position that Germany is now in. Aircraft of a type heretofore not seen in Germany can unimpededly fly over German government buildings and drop handbills today-tomorrow, perhaps gas or explosive bombs carrying death and destruction...
Promptly Adolf Hitler's loudest roarer, Prussian Premier Hermann Goring, followed up with a blast. He had just defied the Treaty of Versailles by ordering two "police planes" to defend Berlin. Cried...
When foreign newshawks tried to check details of the "Red Raid" they could discover neither any of the leaflets supposed to have been dropped nor a single Berlin eyewitness who had seen them fall. Every German questioned had merely read about the raid in the Nazi Press. A foreign official claimed actual possession of a copy of the leaflets but lamely explained: "The Government has no interest in spreading such insults." British correspondents in dispatches telephoned to London were first to brand the whole affair as a complete Hitlerite lie to ballyhoo National Aviation Week, which in Germany is this...