Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt last week conducted a school for ambassadors. Home for a seminar on U. S. foreign policy were Hugh Wilson (Berlin), William Phillips (Rome) and William Bullitt (Paris). On the way from London was Joe Kennedy (nominally on his way to Florida to spend Christmas with his son Jack), and called home from China was Nelson Johnson, who by traveling his fastest can reach Washington next month...
...interpretation of the Book of Esther, appearing in Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' Berlin Der Angriff last week, was of greater interest to diplomats than to Bible students...
...constructive side, it was reported from Berlin that Führer Hitler had agreed to delete from Mein Kampf certain uncomplimentary references in which France was described as a "bastardized, negroid" country, an "eternal danger to the white race of Europe." an "enemy-to-the-death of the German people." There were also suggestions that France in turn might tone down the inscriptions on some World War monuments which bitterly refer to the "ravages of Huns...
...With as much publicity as possible an Italian royal decree was issued which provided special armaments appropriations of $65,000,000, a 20% increase over the regular military expenses already appropriated. Italy's Chief of Staff and Under Secretary for War, General Alberto Pariani. who has recently visited Berlin, was pointedly dispatched to inspect the defenses on the island of Sardinia, eight miles south of Corsica...
...Oswald Pirow, lion hunter and air pilot as well as Minister of Defense for the Union of South Africa, returned to London after making the rounds of authoritarian headquarters (Lisbon, Salamanca. Berlin, Rome). Encouraged by the British Government to sound out Adolf Hitler on just how much colonial "appeasement" would satisfy him and to ask other powers how much of their colonies they would hand over, Mr. Pirow's trip turned out to be a flop. When the Jewish pogroms flared up, German stock in Britain fell to zero, and all thought of giving Germany anything...