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Next visitor from Germany to Rome was scheduled to be the Nazi War Minister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg. As though to show his northern friends-and England and France too-that he means business, II Duce last week stood over the Italian Parliament while his undersecretaries for War, Navy, and Air demanded and got appropriations totaling $38,240,000 more than last year when Italy was still at war. And besides ordering a press and newsreel boycott of Britain's Coronation, II Duce let out two other announcements so timed as to be interpreted at Whitehall as "aggressively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Axis Forging | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Their two hearts beating as one, II Duce bade farewell to General Goring, reportedly promised to visit Dictator Hitler in June or July, sat back to await the arrival of two other potent Germans, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath and War Minister Marshal Werner von Blomberg. Quickly commented Mussolini-mouthpiece Editor Virginio Gayda, of Giornale d'Italia: "Nothing in Europe without Italy and Germany. Nothing against Italy and Germany." It looked as though an egg of unusual size were being hatched in the Fascist incubator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Big Egg? | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...response to the German protest against Mayor LaGuardia's crack week before, ignored both U. S. protest and Nazi explanation. At the same time, however, the press did quit belaboring the U. S., becoming absorbed in the 40th anniversary as a soldier of Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Relations Beclouded | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Honors. To War Minister General Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg the Führer last week presented a field marshal's baton, first ever given in Germany in peacetime.* He made Air Minister Hermann Goring and Army Chief of Staff Werner von Fritsch colonel-generals and Fleet Commander Erich Raeder an admiral-general (something new). Colonel-general and admiral-general were also promoted to full Cabinet rank. To the smiling group in the Chancellery, suffused with pink German sentiment, the Führer readily launched into oratory: "On this day I look back with pride and joy upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy Birthday | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Hero Prince. Reich War Minister von Blomberg last week stole Austria's greatest war hero. In all German garrison towns was read a proclamation setting forth, on the 200th anniversary of the death of great Prince Eugene of Savoy, that Eugene was a Pan-German hero who had saved Germany from the "predatory greed" and "plundering, burning and murdering armies" of France's Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy Birthday | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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