Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Day. During the night the Realmleader slept on his green private train between Rome and Naples, the King-Emperor slept on his blue private train, and Il Duce was up until 2 a. m. on his private train, arranging last-minute details of the morrow's great Italian Navy display -190 warboats totaling 300.000 tons, the largest European concentration of war craft since the World...
...unshakable will and also my political testament to the German people." cried Hitler, "to consider inviolable for all time the frontiers of the Alps, erected between us by nature. I am certain that for Rome, as well as for Germany, there will result a future that is glorious and prosperous. Duce. just as you and your people have remained true to your friendship in the decisive days, so I, too, and my people are ready to manifest the same friendship to Italy in difficult times. Duce. I raise my glass and drink to your health, to the happiness and greatness...
Last Day. Although Haile Selassie was girding in London to make his last stand at Geneva this week, his son-in-law Ras Gugsa traveled obediently in the entourage of Conquerors Vittorio Emanuele & Mussolini as they took Dictator Hitler out on the last day of his Rome visit for the big bombing & shelling...
Over 400 planes joined in mass aerobatics, and next it was time for II Duce to set anti-tank guns popping with incendiary bullets which set fire to their targets. The latest Italian artillery then went into action, followed at Rome that evening by a gala Royal Opera performance of musical Adolf's favorite Lohengrin. Next morning Premier Mussolini drove unobtrusively to the railway station, popped in by a side door, while His Majesty the King-Emperor arrived in his victoria with departing Guest Hitler. Il Duce. after seeing the Führer into his private train, dashed ahead...
Lollypop. In London and Paris, as well as in Berlin and Rome, statesmen expected bilateral pacts now to be swiftly made between France & Italy, Britain & Germany, after which they looked for the final effort to conclude a Four-Power Pact. II Duce was said to have got emotional Adolf Hitler all excited in Florence about a grandiose, perfectly vague project for "world Fascist-Nazi fraternization," this being Benito Mussolini's parting lollypop for the Führer...