Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They found still on the campus "the Colonel" (Horace M. Poynter), oldtime Latin teacher, and "Georgie" (George Walker Hinman), a Greek and Latin tutor who once bit a pencil in two when a pupil failed to conjugate amare. Missing was "Zeus" (Allen Rogers Brenner), famed old Greek teacher, many another familiar face. The old boys found other changes. In ten years a revolution had taken place...
...Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt is held by Denmark,* whose integrity has only a few days ago been formally guaranteed by the Führer. What has become of the traditional German exactness? The song ought to read "from the Brenner to Flensburg...
Almost forgotten in the ballyhoo about home-yearning German minorities in Eastern Europe is the fact that Allies Italy and Germany also have between them a little minority problem of their own. Living just south of the Brenner Pass, in what Austrians call the South Tyrol and the Italians insist upon referring to as the Upper Adige, are some 200,000 German-speaking people who, by the Treaty of St. Germain signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve...
Privately, other explanations for German troop movements in the eastern Alps were given. For a week the Brenner Pass from old Austria into Italy has been closed to civilian traffic. For the same period long German troop and munition trains have been pouring through, southward bound to Italy. Best guess as to their ultimate destination: Italian-owned Libya, in north Africa, where Dictator Benito Mussolini has long planned an "adventure...
...mobilization speed, decided to call up 80,000 recruits in April instead of October. Britain took the first step toward conscription (see p. 16). From Germany came alarming reports of troop movements: five new mechanized divisions had been created, two whole divisions, equipped for "desert operations," passed over the Brenner Pass into Italy headed presumably for Italian Africa, trucks were requisitioned and "spring" maneuvers were scheduled to start February...