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...might well be the deciding area of combat. Like wolves and dogs which instinctively spring for adversaries' throats, the strategists of the Axis last week seemed to be baring their fangs for the British Empire's jugular vein at its two most exposed spots. Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's visit to Rome (see p. 29) paved the way for action against Gibraltar, and the Italian drive in Egypt was headed straight for Suez...
Reunion in Vienna. In Belvedere Palace in Vienna, where two years ago the Rome-Berlin Axis graciously gave Hungary a nibble of Czecho-Slovakia, Counts Teleki and Csaky again met their Axis mentors last week. Besides their old friends, Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano, they had the pleasure of meeting Rumanian Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu. M. Manoilescu had been summoned by the Axis. The German and Italian Foreign Ministers were there simply to lend their good offices to the discussions, to point the way to a resumption of negotiations...
Rumania. And it looked as if Russia might not wait for the Transylvanian problem to settle itself. So Herr von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano, who consider southeast Europe their own back lot, decided on a squeeze play...
With that the conference moved to a swift Axis finish. In the Gold Room of "the Belvedere the two Hungarians and the two Rumanians met with Ciano, Ribbentrop and Baron Alexander von Dornberg, German Chief of Protocol...
Only one of the seven was in civilian clothes-Count Teleki." While Ribbentrop was reading the crisp decision, Rumania's Manoilescu grew pale and faint. Baron von Dornberg hastened to his side with a glass of water...