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Last week Rodolfo Graziani flew to Rome to get orders from his boss, who at Brenner Pass in an armored train had just got orders from his boss. The orders, if advices reaching London had any basis, delighted Mussolini and infuriated Graziani. II Duce had reason to be pleased: Herr Hitler reportedly told him that Germany would send substantial forces into the Southern Theatre for the winter. Marshal Graziani's pique was due to the inference that the Italians, and specifically the Italian Command, were eunuchs in warfare, unable to do heavy jobs without some muscle to help them...
...flag-strewn station, made dust specks dance above the red carpets that led from Il Duce's luxurious parlor car to the Führer's austere private coach. At 11 a.m. Signor Mussolini, who had been reviewing a regiment of 6-foot Sicilians, walked to Herr Hitler's car and welcomed his ally to Italy. The fat little Italian's demeanor was gay. The Austrian looked preoccupied...
...When I go back to my country," said Oswaldo Aranha, Foreign Minister of Brazil, last year in Washington, "I shall propose that we erect a statue to Herr Hitler. For it is Hitler who at last succeeded in drawing the attention of the United States to Brazil...
...sure that this day [of invasion] will come. On this day the British will realize that the story of an overdue invasion was just as valueless as the story of the bus that Herr Hitler missed, and that their broad viewpoints were nothing but illusions that brought them oceans of blood and tears, just as Prime Minister Churchill predicted when he took over the Government...
...Authoress Boothe went to Holland a few days before the Nazis did. Herr Snouck Hurgronje told her the Germans were expected: "The same sources have informed our Government so which informed it five days before the German invasion of Norway." They had not warned the British and French. "Certainly not. . . . They're not our allies." He added: "It's just another agony to fear what cannot be prevented or conquered." Nazi warplanes caught up with Miss Boothe in Brussels; she fled to Paris. It was Maytime. "Now at the Gare du Nord and the Gard...