Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This meeting was at Franklin Roosevelt's invitation. It was an act, not of self-abasement like Neville Chamberlain's trip to Munich, but of cheerful desperation. He wanted to tell the Senate's leaders face to face why he needed a free hand in world power politics, what was going on in the mad world abroad...
After the Berlin trips Count and Countess Ciano went once to Vienna, where they were dined at Schönbrunn and Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria, recognized Italy's Ethiopian conquest. From there they went to Budapest, where they left something less than a good impression. The Countess was said to have made eyes at one of the sons of old Regent Horthy. This could easily have been excused, but when the Count and Countess showed up for a hunting expedition arranged by the Regent four hours late with only the excuse they had overslept...
...openly criticized than for years past. Little jokes, about the German "invasion" of Italy, are beginning to circulate quietly. Anti-Mussolini posters have appeared (briefly) in Milan and Turin. Viva Hitler legends, painted on all the houses along the railway route taken by the Führer on his trip to Rome last year, have been unanimously painted over. There is a dour expression on Italian faces as they watch the heavy-booted Nazi chiefs who now are seen all over the Italian landscape. Crown Prince Umberto, supposed to be antiFascist, is greeted tumultuously whenever he appears...
...including a 21 -gun salute at the World's Fair. General Trujillo's next stop, said he, would be Paris, whither he will sail in a fortnight to pick up his wife, who went there two months ago to bear a second child.* The General's trip to Europe (his first) is supposedly as private and unofficial as his junket to the U. S. But since he has French ancestors and has been decorated with the Légion d'Honneur, he will probably be feted by the French Government...
...finally defeated his quest for the source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone." He might be comforted by the further thought that in sharing his nostalgia and making mysterious Tibet as real to Englishmen, and hardly...