Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orator Mussolini recently boasted that Italy today has the largest, most powerful submarine fleet in the world. German Navy experts in the entourage of the Führer said they believed there had never been such a submarine display as Italy offered last week. One moment the sea was alive with 85 submarines advancing in nine columns toward the Conte di Cavour. Suddenly all dived, vanishing completely in 75 seconds, then eight minutes later all upped into sight still in perfect formation, and all firing their deck guns at a total of 1,000 shots per minute-pandemonium...
...squadrons were then realistically attacked by pursuit ships. The heaviest type of bombs used by Italian craft today in Spain were not dropped for Adolf Hitler, since their radius of destruction is so tremendous as to be risky in war games, but in a land display the Führer was treated to the dropping of a total of at least 100,000 pounds of "medium bombs," which made the earth tremble, blasted to smithereens large structures built to represent industrial plants and harbor works...
...gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead in his own private train at a faster clip to Florence. There Art Lover Hitler browsed through the famed art museums and romantic palaces before boarding his train and chuffing off to Berlin...
...they looked for the final effort to conclude a Four-Power Pact. II Duce was said to have got emotional Adolf Hitler all excited in Florence about a grandiose, perfectly vague project for "world Fascist-Nazi fraternization," this being Benito Mussolini's parting lollypop for the Führer...
...last week (see p. 22), His Holiness Pope Pius XI had retreated from the comforts of the Vatican and gone to his unheated palace at Castel Gandolfo, which he does not usually visit until definitely warm weather has arrived. The Pope was represented as displeased because the Führer had not requested an audience. To pilgrims at Castel Gandolfo the Holy Father said that it was sad that "on the feast day of the Holy Cross of Christ the banners of another cross [the swastika], which certainly is not that of Christ, should have been hoisted in Rome." Next...