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Fats are essential in the human diet, but butter is "the luxury fat," and the attitude of each Great Power on the issue of butter was becoming last week vitally significant. Ministerpräsident General-Oberst Hermann Wilhelm Göring has now made the battle cry of Germany's present rearmament Four-Year Plan: "GUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER!" Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden last week responded, in one of the ablest speeches he has ever made to the British nation, addressed to a London banquet: "We definitely prefer butter to guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Butter v. Might | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...splendiferous arrival in Rome was made last week by Ministerpräsident General-Oberst. In stature Mussolini is definitely a small man and Italians were surprised that Göring did not turn out to be larger-they had expected a bulging Gargantua in corsets, but Göring has really trained down, and Germany is training down, hard. Herr Göring gave a good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Butter v. Might | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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