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When terse, provocative Benito Mussolini feels that someone in authority should ramble on to the Italian people in soothing, fireside-chat fashion, Il Duce is apt to set his Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, a-chatting. In Rome last week the Chamber of Fasci & Corporations convened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

But it would be naive to imagine that Mr. Siepmann's visit is purely academic. Obviously, he will travel about the country, but ton-holing the leading radio executives, dining and wining them, discussing -- in an off-hand manner, of course -- the unfortunate war into which Britain has been dragged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRITANNIA RULES THE AIR WAVES | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Some weeks ago the Nazi High Command sent, as a handsome present to The Netherlands High Command, 1,500 copies of the official military map of Germany, showing every creek and hillock, every canal and road and bridge. Couple of days later the Nazi High Command hinted delicately to The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: General Dike | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

By 8, the old hands were assembled in the Bürgerbräu Keller, a low, barnlike building on Rosenheimerstrasse beyond the Deutsches Museum, and across the Isar River from Munich proper. Old friends greeted each other in the big, oblong beer hall-sanctum sanctorum of the Nazi Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Until last March, U. S. readers had never seen an unexpurgated, full-length translation of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Then, simultaneously, two U. S. editions appeared. Publishers Houghton Mifflin,* who owned the copyright, sued Stackpole Sons for piracy. Stackpole refused to haul down their jolly roger. Said they: Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hitler Royalties | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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