Word: pro-german
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...week's end Dictator Metaxas still had not gone to Rome. Months ago it was reported that "Little John" Metaxas, who was interned as pro-German in World War I, was prepared to make no real resistance to moderate Italian demands (TIME, June 10). But last week Italian demands, though still unspecified, were not thought to be moderate at all. Threatened with losing his country altogether, Dictator Metaxas called Berlin by telephone. He had one card left to play: Turkey's promise to go to Greece's aid if she were attacked. Adolf Hitler, who wants...
...With Venustiano Carranza as President in 1915-17, Mexico was a famous centre of pro-German, anti-U. S. intrigue, even conspired with German agents to invade Texas...
...French were mad at Marie-Adélaïde, claimed that she was pro-German because she had received the Kaiser at tea. Toward the end of the war stories about Luxembourg's high-spirited young ruler began to circulate in the Grand Duchy, and the Luxembourgeois, who were hungry and broke and sick of the Germans, believed many of them. There were riots in Luxembourg City as the Germans retreated across the Moselle and the French started to move in. Pershing beat them to it, and for a while in 1918 Luxembourg was under the protection...
Anti-British or pro-German I am not. I have lived much in other countries in five journeys around the world and pride myself on being able to get into other people's skins, black, yellow, and brown, and to look out at their world through their eycholes. My ancestors have been American and English for hundreds of years. I always return to England feeling it is my ancestral home. The English gentleman at his best is unsurpassed, just as, at his worst, is the English 'tipper'. But I am against the present Tory crew now ruining England...
...Ciano. After the Po maneuver's fiasco, Il Duce cleaned house. As his first step, out went his Under Secretaries for War and Air, Alberto Pariani and Giuseppe Valle, because they had concealed the true state of Italy's war machine from their boss. Out went violently pro-German Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace and Minister of Popular Culture (Propaganda) Oboardo Dino Alfieri. These dismissals had the effect of raising the prestige of Il Duce's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who loathed Ribbentrop and Hitler for treating him like a naive youngster...