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Aside from Spain's civil war, the most lively political project in Europe is the Fascist "axis" swiftly being forged by Dictators Mussolini and Hitler. The latter's beefy No. 2 man. Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, has been down to Italy twice in four months to discuss it. Last month Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg went down to Venice from Vienna to find out just where Austria stood in the new picture (TIME, May 3). Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, has been to Berlin for a courtesy call. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Axis Forging | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Schaffendes Volk (Creative People) Exposition, timed to steal the thunder of the Paris Exposition and show up French "incompetence," will be opened this week (May 8) by Air Minister Colonel-General Hermann Wilhelm Goring. The Fair will publicize the aims and accomplishments of Germany's Four-Year Plan, especially such synthetic products as artificial rubber, textiles, gasoline. Also emphasized will be Germany's progress in city-planning, home-construction and horticulture. In the garden show alone will be more than a million varieties of plants and flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fairs Enough | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Pertinax," foreign editor of the Echo de Paris, announced last week that orders for the massacre of Guernica came direct from Hermann Wilhelm Goring, anxious to show the unconvinced German general staff what his air force could do. No source for this interesting theory was given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Babies, Bombs & Battleships | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...French Comedians by Antoine actors reciting something turgid by Moliere, this great but florid painting was once the property of sour-faced Philosopher Voltaire, who gave it to his great admirer, Frederick the Great of Prussia. Claiming it as his personal property, Wilhelm II was able to ship it out of Germany to his exile at Doom, later was forced to sell it to Sir Joseph Duveen who passed it on for a handsome consideration to Mr. Bache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bache Museum | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...hundred years ago a German schoolmaster named Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel opened in Blankenburg the world's first kindergarten. Lonely, eccentric Friedrich Froebel, who had left school at a tender age to become a forester's apprentice because his teachers thought him a dunce, believed that children were "young plants needing to be nurtured carefully." In the garden of his private academy, which gave the kindergarten its name, Teacher Froebel supervised the play of his neighbors' children in a systematic manner, until his socialistic and irreligious leanings moved the Prussian authorities to close the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Birthday | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

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