Word: german
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Timed to the minute came a story from Berlin: Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini would propose peace. German divisions released from the Polish front, together with the bulk of the German air force, would be sent to the German-Italian frontier-prepared to move across Italy with Italian troops if France refused peace; prepared to move against Italy if Italy refused to offer...
Turkey. Lights burned all night in the Foreign Ministry at Ankara, where Foreign Minister Shokru Saracoglu (pronounced Sarro-joe-glue) was preparing to visit Moscow. Announced before Russian troops invaded Poland, the trip grew in importance as the week advanced, as the significance of joint Russian-German aggression swept over the frightened Balkans. A 55-year-old lawyer, nervous, clever, quick-witted Shokru Saracoglu be gan his public life at 40, when Turkey's Kamal Atatürk was consolidating, his power, when Russia on the north was far from strong. A lusty, exuberant Moslem (married, with two children...
...etat had been expected for so long that stories of a two-week delay seemed hopeful; in Bulgaria, where dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Spain could embark upon, or long sustain, secret agreements to be disclosed like bombs, and followed by grandiose military campaigns...
...Hamburg, patriotic Heinrich Hagenbeck, director of one of the world's greatest zoos, announced that the zoo's elephants will soon replace tractors on German farms, that its camels were being trained to pull wagons. All other Hagenbeck animals, except a pair of each species, were being shipped to Russia. Said Herr Hagenbeck, who gave up his car, took a Shetland pony to work: at the war's end Bolsheviks promised to return the animals or replace them with "rare Russian or Asiatic" specimens...
...diger Prinz von Starhemberg, ex-Vice Chancellor of Austria, ex-leader of the Austrian Heimwehr, exile, proposed to ask the French Government's permission to recruit an Austrian regiment for service in the French Army. The morale of Austrians who were now forced to fight in German ranks, he added hopefully, "must...