Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany had already counterbalanced this. The German Government had Finnish Commerce Minister Väinö Alfred Tanner wandering around Greater Germany. Ostensibly on a trade mission, he talked about "our German friends." The German radio reported that in Vienna he said: "Together with Germany ... we shall fight the battle for European culture to a happy conclusion...
...officer and a few days later navigated her, despite the Imperial spyglasses, onto a mine. She sank, and most of the officers and crew with her. Nomura says of his survival: "Ship she go down; me I come up." The Navy made Navigator Nomura a diplomat. He served in Vienna and Berlin for a time, and during World War I was stationed in Washington as Naval Attache. There he made the acquaintance of Under Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt and many a naval comer; it is this period which gave him his reputation as a man of good will...
...says Italy's No.1 Historian, exiled Guglielmo Ferrero, who wrote this new history of the Congress of Vienna...
Ferrero's chief talent as a historian has always been to make the dullest periods of history as fresh as a newspaper. The Reconstruction of Europe is in part a lively resuscitation of the Congress of Vienna from corridors, back rooms and boudoirs. The Austrian secret police dogged everybody at the Congress where Emperor Francis I played host, and their reports, meticulously preserved by the Habsburgs whose motto was never to throw a piece of paper away, have a narrative verve and unvarnished realism which are a Ferrero specialty...
Most of The Reconstruction of Europe describes how Talleyrand asserted his principles at Vienna, overcoming the intrigues, rivalries, greeds, hates and incurable frivolity of the rescued old regime. He was able to produce a peace which for much of Europe lasted 100 years, so that generations could grow up believing that war was the abnormal, not the normal, state...