Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday at 9:30 a. m., Il Duce's trim train pulled in at the little mountain village of Brennero, in the famed Brenner Pass, just over the German border in Italy. Forty minutes later the Führer's train arrived in a driving snow storm...
...Herr Ribbentrop has a bad habit (for the Allies) of signing world-shaking treaties and pacts when he appears in foreign capitals. British diplomats quickly patched up a deal with Italy over the coal, and thus took the wind out of the Ribbentrop sails before he had passed the Brenner...