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...annual Tripoli Sample Fair by Il Duce. a dash by air almost up to the French frontier, a performance of Oedipus Rex in the ancient Roman amphitheatre near Tunisia, and finally a second grand Italian day & night naval review with plenty of Fascist fireworks. Much as onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II used to angle for Islam's applause, Dictator Mussolini is making it a point to visit every important Mohammedan shrine, presenting handsome candelabra to each of Islam's more sacred mosques in Libya...
King Carol flew into such a fury that the Cabinet of Premier George Tatarescu hastily offered His Majesty their resignations and burned up wires to Berlin and Rome demanding the recall of German Minister Dr. Wilhelm Fabricius and Italian Minister Ugo Sola. The Cabinet sent "warnings" to the Polish, Portuguese and Japanese legations against repeating the offense of attending in Bucharest an anti-Jewish funeral...
Much more uneasy were British Labor leaders during the week at the behavior of the German Ambassador.±As though pomp-loving No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring had decided to attend the Coronation next May, Ambassador von Ribbentrop announced that the Reich is spending ?100,000 ($500,000) to enlarge its London Embassy by throwing three great houses into one. Last week this work was going at rush pace and in the House of Commons loud protests were made by Laborite M. P.'s because British workmen were not in on it. Over from Germany...
...Coronation season in splurges of superkolossal festivity. It was time last week to review the von Ribbentrops. she the heiress of a German champagne family, he an ex-salesman in England of not only rare German wines but also best Scotch whiskey. Intimate are the Hohenzollern grandsons of Wilhelm II with the von Ribbentrops; intimate too are many radical Nazi party members of the tough type who ordinarily do not get on with bemonocled German bourgeoisie and intimate are von Ribbentrop and Hitler. Last August, when von Ribbentrop's appointment as Ambassador was announced, he had been running...
Great is the name that President Roebling bears in Trenton. John Augustus Roebling, engineer, musician, favorite pupil of Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, laid the first plans for the Brooklyn Bridge. After the Civil War he and his son, the late great Col. Washington A. Roebling, built a factory in Trenton to make their own steel cables for that miraculous structure. Col. Roebling finished it. In 1933 Mary Gindhart, a customer's consultant in the Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling...