Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this ethereal haunt there arrived one day last week Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, son-in-law of Il Duce. Already there were German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador to Rome, the Italian Ambassador to Berlin, sundry legal experts, advisers, retainers. They were to have lunch with the Führer...
...hour for the return. Danzig itself was in a bad way. Its business had gradually approached a standstill-and Nazi papers accused Poland of strangling its trade. Its armed force of Nazis was estimated at 15,000, augmented last week by 1,500 spade-equipped members of the German Labor Service...
France. Experts guessed that Italian generals had discovered that the German theories of Blitzkrieg (lightning war) were untenable, that a high-speed onslaught such as the Army of the Po was practicing would result in another Guadalajara traffic...
Last week Nazi journals forlornly counterattacked, warning that chic, slim figures do not fit into German life, that dresses which are good-looking in one season are the same the next, that German men do not like to see their wives in a new dress or hat every few months, that women should learn "to abandon a dress when it is used up and not when it becomes unfashionable." Prime mover in this audacious campaign is brush-haired, portly Dr. Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth...
...citizens stuck with German bonds, SEC's refusal to let Germany "pay" was no great loss, if anything, opened possibilities of a better deal. The bonds were last week kicking around in Wall Street for 25? on the dollar, in Germany, at 60 pfennig on the 100 pfennig Reichsmark (good only in Germany). If SEC had accepted the application, bondholders would have got $35,000,000 of bonds (1937 and '38 interest) which at 3% would have netted them about $1,000,000 a year in usable money. British holders of German bonds got a better deal which...