Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting Year. Historically, this visit climaxed an unparalleled era of international visiting and friend-making. With the war clouds hanging over Europe, there was no telling when friendly neighbors' roofs would be needed. Within two years, four out of six Balkan rulers had visited London or Berlin. Mussolini had visited Berlin, and Hitler repaid the compliment. King George & Queen Elizabeth had been to Paris, and in turn had received President Lebrun in London. To make the utmost of their trip to the U. S.,* the King had at his elbow Secretary Alan Frederick Lascelles, who wrote his speeches...
...carry its latest message to Moscow in the tiresome seesawing of Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, Godesberg, Munich; British charge d'affaires in Moscow during the difficult spy trial of the Metropolitan-Vickers engineers) thought he had a better chance than bigwigs to find the elusive formula, clinch an Anglo-Soviet agreement. The fact that...
...German heat wave was too much for the "volunteers" home from Spain. As they paraded by their sweating Führer, many of them fainted. The asphalt on Berlin's Via Triumphalis was so soft that no tanks or cars with caterpillar treads were allowed on the avenue. For the second time Führer Hitler blossomed out in the new white ceremonial jacket which correspondents labeled the "Axis coat," since it first appeared at the signing of the Italian-German alliance...
...mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers are ostracized. Delicate machinery, especially in munitions plants, has been mysteriously damaged, and there have been unexplained delays in railroad schedules and slowdowns in factories. As a result, Protector Baron Constantin von Neurath recently went to Berlin to report to Adolf Hitler on the trouble he was having with stubborn, noncooperative Czechs...
...fact heroically stated by a soldier who is doing his bit, especially when he also reports his comrades begging their officers to forgive them for getting wounded, dying with a shout of "May our Emperor live a thousand years!" They may do these things better in Moscow and Berlin, but Japan is catching up with the West...