Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in Rome, was conferring almost daily last week on the most amicable terms with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, II Duce's son-in-law, and since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe...
...more traditional form of monarchy, and set up the Kingdom of Cafeteria in the heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome-Berlin axis, and the friendly manner in which the two strong men goose-step arm in arm and kid each other about colonies, is among the best touches of the production...
Thus, in their own queerly truculent ways, Dictators Mussolini & Hitler last week formally sealed the Rome-Berlin Axis as an axis of mutual Italian-German peace...
...been proclaiming for weeks that they will fight if their border is crossed by the Germans. These brave words from brave men Der Führer duly took into account, but not in the way expected. Since he had barred London and Paris from aiding Czechoslovakia by making the Rome-Berlin Axis stretch uninterruptedly from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the problem last week was whether Moscow from the east will strike across Poland or Rumania to aid Prague. Orator Hitler has compared himself to a somnambulist and last week he advanced like a woman in her sleep unerringly...
...women will continue to take part in Olympic games, despite objections that some women athletes have in the past quite suddenly and surprisingly become men after the games; 4) bids for the 1944 games had been made by London, Helsingfors, Athens, Budapest, Lausanne, but not, as expected, by Rome (Italy had agreed to Japan's having the 1940 games only because the 1940th year of Christianity is also the 2600th year of the Empire of the Rising...