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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's Dictator, challenging England and France to show themselves Fascism's friends, described the Rome-Berlin accord negotiated fortnight ago by his son-in-law Count Ciano (TIME, Nov. 2) as "an axis around which all European States animated by a desire for Peace may collaborate on troubles. ... It is no wonder if we today raise the banner of anti-Bolshevism!" After uttering such warlike bombast, cautious Benito Mussolini always leaves open a diplomatic avenue running in the opposite direction. "Blackshirts!" he roared. "Your marching orders are: . . . Peace with all, with those near and afar! ARMED PEACE...
Famed for its early voting is the town of New Ashford, Mass., which has been first in the U. S. to count and report its handful of ballots in every Presidential election since 1916. Such promptness and its attendant national publicity have been carefully fostered for New Ashford by the Berkshire Eagle, published in Pittsfield about twelve miles away. Last week the newspaper, in danger of losing its prize story to Radio, saved it by an ingenious scheme...
Sportsman son of a railroading father, Averell Harriman noted that 8,000 U. S. skiers went to Austria alone last year. He noted the Banff and Lake Louise developments of Canadian Pacific. So he invited Count Felix Schaffgotsch, a fellow sportsman from Austria, to roam the West until he found-on the U. P.-a likely spot for skiing...
...famed for springing what Nazis call his "Saturday surprises." Abruptly Der Führer sprang a public announcement of the first of five points of agreement secretly reached between Germany and Italy. "The Führer and Chancellor," he disclosed, "has informed the royal Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Ciano . . . that the Reich Government has decided formally to recognize the Italian Empire in Ethiopia...
While the staffs of Dictator Hitler and Count Ciano busied themselves drafting a further public announcement, Der Führer said good-by to the Foreign Minister and he was driven to Munich ("The Capital of the National Socialist Movement") for afternoon parades and evening torchlight demonstrations. Son-in-law Ciano laid a wreath on the steps of the Heroes' Temple in which are buried Storm Troopers killed in bloody German street brawls before the Nazis came to power. He laid another wreath on the monument marking the spot on which Government machine guns in 1923 opened fire...