Word: duces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, just about to be sent home. They fought the sort of open, spectacular game cinema producers think is war. Cordial was Der Führer to another distinguished guest, the Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, pointedly snubbed by II Duce...
Since Art is a Munich specialty, since Adolf Hitler used to paint and is distinctly "arty," the program followed by II Duce-apart from a quick round of laying wreaths on Nazi shrines in Munich "The Capital of the Nazi Party and of Nazidom"-was loaded heavily with Kunst (Art). Under this head came 400 of Germany's prettiest stage and cinema actresses. At tea in the Museum of German Art, the Dictators kissed cinewomen's hands while they gushed, but Boxer Max Schmeling was also a guest and the German actresses seemed to prefer Schmeling...
...with green branches and flags at once. To see that they did, Dr. Goebbels himself rushed ahead to Essen, and when the Dictators' trains came rumbling in next day, Krupps and workers had done themselves proud. Correspondents, shoved completely out of the picture, cooled their heels while II Duce and Der Führer tramped through the hush-hush realms of Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach...
...never liked the gingerbread architecture of Berlin, this week concealed as much of it as possible with 40,000 square yd. of bunting tied with more than seven miles of gold ribbon. Not only were those buildings in the German capital most likely to be seen by II Duce wrapped up like Christmas packages, but Unter den Linden, the main thoroughfare, sprouted on each side colossal white pylons four rows deep and as high as the buildings behind them, each pylon topped with a glaring gold eagle. Aryan-owned buildings had the "honor" of sprouting both German and Italian flags...
Although Mussolini's visit was to close this week with a pair of full-length broadcasts to the world by himself and Hitler, significance of the big show was well charted in advance. The mere fact that II Duce and Der Führer were laying their heads together had cooled off the recent hot British and French determination to browbeat Italy on the Mediterranean "piracy" issue (TIME, Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According...