Word: keitel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of little plain men had not depended on what they did, their actions would have looked a little silly. Joseph Stalin's man, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, arrived in Berlin in the rain and was greeted by Adolf Hitler's men, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. At Anhalt station were also the Ambassadors of China, Turkey and Japan, bowing & scraping and watching Premier Molotov's every gesture for a hint of what Boss Stalin's intentions toward their countries might...
...German bigwigs, then went to the Chancellery to attend to business with Adolf Hitler. He stayed there for three hours. Next day he spent two hours with Reich Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring and an hour with Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess, sat through a four-hour luncheon with Hitler, Ribbentrop, Keitel and others. That evening he entertained the Germans at a dinner and reception at the Soviet Embassy. Having listened for two full days and publicly committed himself to nothing, Comrade Molotov next day took a train back to Russia to report to his boss man. At the border he sent...
...gone to the bantamweight. Now it was up to the heavyweight to move in again. Whether the second round would be another story was anyone's guess, but that the Italians intended to try was certain. At Innsbruck Italian and German Commanders in Chief Pietro Badoglio and Wilhelm Keitel met and talked strategy. It must have been an embarrassment to both these old soldiers to consider that if the Italians could not knock over the Greeks by themselves, the Germans might have to come in through Yugoslavia. This week Italians sent wave after wave of planes to strafe Greek...
...Herr Hitler met Francisco Franco. The two strolled along a regal carpet, and behind them trailed dignitaries galore-Franco's brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, recently made Foreign Minister after a visit to Berlin and Rome; Foreign Minister Ribbentrop; Field Marshals Brauchitsch and Keitel; significantly, the ghost writer of Hitler's pacts, Dr. Friedrich Gaus, and many other wearers of braid and jack boots...
...hour and a half after Hitler and Mussolini, accompanied by their Foreign Ministers, had entered II Duce's car and drawn the shades, an aide hurried to Herr Hitler's coach and returned with Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Armed Forces of the Reich. This was a clear indication that a war council was in progress. Before leaving Rome, Mussolini had had a long talk with his military chieftain, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, who had been summoned home from Egypt and another halted invasion...