Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smigly-Rydz showed up in Vilna and marshaled over 50,000 Polish troops along the frontier of Lithuania, which has an army of some 22,000. When the sabre had been thoroughly rattled, Polish President Ignacy Moscicki and Foreign Minister Josef Beck, just back in Warsaw after conferring in Rome with II Duce, dispatched to President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania demands asking nothing more than that the "state of war'' which has existed between Poland and Lithuania for nearly 18 years give way to peace, that the closed and barbed-wire-strung frontier between the two countries...
Teutons naturally dislike Latins, more specifically Italians dislike Germans, and last week Der Führer and II Duce worked like stevedores to keep their peoples sold on the Rome-Berlin Axis. The press of the world had done everything possible to suggest that Italy and Germany can no longer be friends, now that Germany has engulfed Austria and thus brought German soldiers down to the Brenner Pass frontier of Italy, immediately below which live 613,000 Italian subjects, many of whom were Austrian Tyroleans before the War and are as fiercely German as A. Hitler himself...
...Rome, therefore, Orator Mussolini last week appeared before the Italian Chamber, and two days later in Berlin Orator Hitler appeared before the Reichstag. Mussolini declared that at 12 o'clock on March 7 he categorically warned a person in Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg's confidence against attempting to hold the Austrian plebiscite which Dr. Schuschnigg announced to take place March 13, canceled on March 11. "This contraption will explode in your hands,'' II Duce claimed last week he told Chancellor Schuschnigg. The Italian Dictator went on to tell the Italian people that Austrians had not thanked...
Berlin's Caesar had just explicitly promised Rome's Caesar by air message that he will "never" seek to obtain any soil which is Italian today, and the Führer's entourage quickly denied the "Tyrol is Free" rumor, also started half-hourly broadcasts warning Nazis significantly not to make unauthorized arrests or seizures of property. Nazi boys & girls at this time were swarming aboard railway trains at every stop, importantly demanding to be shown everyone's passport, but travelers who refused these Nazi moppets were not harmed, though fists were shaken in their faces...
...Europe was simultaneously drawing deductions from the hospitality of Buckingham Palace and No. 10. The Quai d'Orsay was hearing from Rome that Mussolini, now just entering upon negotiations through diplomatic channels with Chamberlain and already on an Axis with Hitler (TIME, Nov. 2, 1936), was "in these circumstances" not again going to mobilize Italian troops along the frontier of Austria as he did in 1934 after the Nazi assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...