Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler had one of his better tantrums last week. Once more the pudgy but intuitive little Führer put the fear of Wotan into baffled British statesmen, and once more France was a prey to apprehensive fury as the Berlin-Rome Axis...
...could not swallow last week, or take a dominant line with Hitler & Mussolini. These dictators had meanwhile announced that, while Germany and Italy would not withdraw from the London Nonintervention Committee on Spain, they would withdraw their warships from its neutral patrol of Spanish waters. In this move by Rome & Berlin, Prime Minister Chamberlain saw an opening to suggest that British and French ships would be willing to fill any gaps in the patrol-a suggestion which Der Führer and II Duce angrily rejected within 48 hours-and Mr. Chamberlain went on to make a speech soon warmly...
...Paris of General Ludwig Beck . . . and the dramatic about face of the 72 Communist members of the Chamber . . . have a direct bearing on each other. . . . There can be no doubt that the General's visit was inspired by the British Foreign Office, anxious to break up the Rome-Berlin axis and establish co-operation between Britain, France and Germany...
...Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome and for the law in Philadelphia and Washington. His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub...
From Vienna, Rome. Zurich and Paris five eminent medical specialists hustled last week to the Carpathian Mountain royal palace at Sinaia, Rumania. The patient awaiting them was Dowager Queen Marie, 61. From Vienna hustled famed Hans Eppinger, specialist in heart diseases. From Rome hustled Sir Aldo Castellani. Count of Chisimaio, specialist in yellow fever, dysentery, sleeping sickness and other tropical diseases (TIME. June 8, 1936). Other hustlers included a radiologist and a liver specialist. Soon from Professor Eppinger came the first definite announcement of what was the matter with Queen Marie, reported sick since last March. Marie of Rumania...