Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speech had the blunt, threatening, direct, totalitarian touch so typical of the masters of Berchtesgaden and Rome, whom the Foreign Minister has several times visited. He hailed the "new era" that Nazi Germany had brought to Eastern Europe. He gloated over the "collapse of an artificially created Czechoslovakia." He sneered at onetime President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia and resented what he called M. Benes' renewed "propaganda and activities." As for neighbors...
...King "with his evil-looking nose and famous bad breath." First woman to be divorced in Spain, she promptly married Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, who was to become Chief of the Loyalist Air Force during the Civil War. Under the tepid, professorial new Republic she lived in Rome and Berlin, where her husband, as Air Attaché, learned much of value, which, however, did not interest his Government...
...mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished the handshake in Italy. He designed the black Fascist uniform. He is generally supposed to have been one of the inventors of the castor-oil technique of punishing political recalcitrants. And he has been one of the most important nuts keeping Rome tightly screwed to the Axis...
...Edmondo Rossoni, Minister of Agriculture, gentlest Cabinet Minister, who used to see everybody, promise everything, do nothing. Stanch friend to Soviet Ambassador Boris Stein, he had hoped that the Moscow-Berlin and Rome-Berlin Axes might mesh...
...this naturally worried Germany. The official German view: it all means nothing. But nervousness was evident in the war's most roundabout dispatch: Rome's Lavoro Fascista heard from Milan that "it is reported from Amsterdam that The Netherlands press publishes an item dated Berlin, according to which Field Marshal Göring will go to Rome next Tuesday." Berlin denied the report. Perhaps it was not necessary for Marshal Göring to go to Rome to find out that Italy was playing this war every man for himself...