Word: foreigners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This rationalization did much to put a better face on Joe Stalin's signing up with Hitler; foreign Communists and fellow travelers were given a rebuttal to fling at those who have maintained since August that Joe is just another opportunist dictator. If he was still against everybody's government, he might still be for the amelioration of the world's masses...
...clock one afternoon last week a large crowd gathered on Berlin's Unter den Linden, in front of the U. S. S. R. Embassy, to watch big limousines pull up and discharge swankily dressed passengers. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and 30 of his Foreign Office assistants, wearing the new Nazi diplomatic uniform, were among the first arrivals. The Finnish and Turkish diplomatic staffs arrived in top hats and cutaways, followed soon by similarly dressed Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, U. S. envoys. Big German bankers, industrialists, Cinemactors Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl trooped in. Editors and foreign correspondents presented...
Inside the Embassy, recently accredited Soviet Ambassador Alexander A. Shkvartsev, onetime textile engineer and said to have been former private secretary of Premier-Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov, was host at as brilliant a reception as ever celebrated on foreign soil an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, until very recently a black day on the Nazi calendar. Although the U. S. S. R. has never rated as a gourmet's paradise, diplomats the world over long ago learned to expect at Soviet Embassy parties as tasty spreads as ever graced a Tsar's table. In hungry Germany the Embassy...
Besides sampling generously the whipped cream, cake and beer, and holding a prolonged conference with His Excellency the Ambassador (the Italian Ambassador was the party's wallflower), Field Marshal Göring allowed himself to be cornered by foreign newsmen and interviewed on the U. S. embargo repeal. While Ja-man Bodenschatz chimed in with Nazi amens to his chief's words, the correspondents put these questions and Göring gave these answers...
...relations through "Princess Steffi, the Mystery Woman of Europe" (as tabloids tag her), despite the fact that she is a Viennese Jewess. In court, Princess Steffi was able to show that Lord Rothermere has paid her some $185,000 in a period of over five years to be his "foreign political representative." She was now suing to force him to fulfill an alleged promise to pay her $20,000 yearly for the rest of her life...