Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always unexpected are Hitler tantrums. The British Foreign Office last week was counting hopefully on easing of European tension after the visit of German Foreign...
...Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration off Valencia to warn the Spanish Leftist Government not to do any more "denting" with submarines or torpedoes. In the House of Commons open charges had been heard that the whole "Leipzig incident" was a Nazi fiction or nightmare. The visit of Baron von Neurath to London was expected to reduce feverish international wrangling over Spain to a cool, almost a British temperature-and then suddenly in Berlin last week the Führer summoned his Cabinet, had his tantrum...
...rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence of the Foreign Minister from Berlin. The British Ambassador has been informed that von Neurath's intended visit must be postponed...
...welcomed in Paris, conferred with General Marie Gustave Gamelin of the French General Staff, reputedly shared with him the German Secret Service's dossier on what is actually happening in Russia. Cabled veteran Paris Correspondent John Elliott of the Herald Tribune: "Political circles here are convinced that . . . the visit to 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...
...late great Depression, the Balearics seemed almost too good to be true. Escapist Elliot Paul found on Iviza, smaller and less-known than Majorca, just the place he was looking for. In a village called Santa Eulalia he spent five years off & on, went back for his last visit in July 1936, few days before civil war cut Iviza off from the world. In The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, Author Paul says hail & farewell to Santa Eulalia with heartfelt emotion, little knowing that Iviza would be on all front pages when his book came...