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Adolf Hitler arrived at the Munich railway station last week boiling mad about some detail of the arrangements which had gone awry, berated a beet-red perspiring Schutzstaffel officer in explosive gutturals, and astonished the easy-going Bavarian populace by his harsh, tense mien. Next minute Der Führer, having saluted II Duce inside the station in the presence of privileged bigwigs, emerged beaming with his guest, while heavy German guns crashed 21 times in salute. Unlike Stalin, who always drives fast in a closed Hispano (see p. 22), Hitler and Mussolini sat side by side in a slowly...
...Hitler after he restored conscription. Having now done their two years' service, the class of 1935 was whooping with elation last week, just about to be sent home. They fought the sort of open, spectacular game cinema producers think is war. Cordial was Der Führer to another distinguished guest, the Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, pointedly snubbed by II Duce...
...must come and see Rome," Conversationalist Mussolini was heard to tell Der Führer in German. "I am quite ready," replied Conversationalist Hitler in German. "It will be an occasion for wearing my new uniform...
...once. To see that they did, Dr. Goebbels himself rushed ahead to Essen, and when the Dictators' trains came rumbling in next day, Krupps and workers had done themselves proud. Correspondents, shoved completely out of the picture, cooled their heels while II Duce and Der Führer tramped through the hush-hush realms of Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach...
Although Mussolini's visit was to close this week with a pair of full-length broadcasts to the world by himself and Hitler, significance of the big show was well charted in advance. The mere fact that II Duce and Der Führer were laying their heads together had cooled off the recent hot British and French determination to browbeat Italy on the Mediterranean "piracy" issue (TIME, Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According...