Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negotiator, Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. Although this swank, sly predecessor of Hitler as Chancellor remains in charge of the German diplomatic mission in Vienna, which retains the status of legation, von Papen personally is raised to "Ambassador Extraordinary on Special Mission." With Germany taking de facto hold of Danzig (see p. 20) and Italy's conquest fast gaining de facto recognition, the new "Dictators' Diplomacy" was philosophized upon in Rome by No. 1 Fascist Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia. Wrote he of Adolf Hitler's order making Germany's Addis Ababa legation...
Into the Free City of Danzig steamed a train and off got the League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig, His Excellency Seán Lester, greeted only by Mrs. Lester and their dog. The dog leaped up and frisked about while Danzig Nazis stolidly stared at Seán Lester with hate in their blue eyes. Patting his dog on the head, the High Commissioner cracked in German at the Nazis, "Thank you, Meine Herren. Thank you for this warm welcome...
...Nazis, led by Danzig Senate President Arthur Karl Greiser. who recently thumbed his nose in the League Council (TIME, July 13), cracked back with decrees muzzling the Danzig Opposition and putting all citizens last week at the mercy of the Nazi police. Adolf Hitler's supreme chief of German Police, Heinrich Himmler, sent one of his closest aides to become Danzig's Police Chief...
...Atlantic was the first ocean yacht race from Hamilton. Bermuda, to Cuxhaven, Germany. Sailing the 3,000-mile course and expected to finish this week were twelve little boats, seven from Germany, two from the U. S.. one each from The Netherlands, Sweden, the Free City of Danzig...
Considering that the Danzig Nazis had got far too chesty, adjoining Poland, a State armed to the teeth and with a hair-trigger temper, sent its Berlin Ambassador around to see bull-necked German Air Minister and Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, who makes Poland one of his Nazi specialties, dearly loves to shoot wild boar at the hunting lodge of Poland's President. Within 24 hours the German Press, which had been lauding Nose-Thumber Greiser, slued around. It was suddenly discovered-or at least printed-that Adolf Hitler had been "furious" about the crude...