Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...BERLIN (Friday)--An air raid alarm in Berlin ended early today, and Nazi spokesmen said Thursday night's operations over Germany cost the Royal Air Force seven planes, including four shot down over Berlin...
...Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...
...circulating in world capitals for the last few weeks has been the rumor of peace. In Washington last week the U. S. State Department had to admit it had heard a rumor that Adolf Hitler planned to call the Reichstag to present his peace terms to the world. From Berlin came reports that the Reichstag would soon be summoned. In Rome the Italian Government was said to be still hoping for peace with Greece. Tokyo heard that feelers had been put out for ending the war in China...
...offensive; 2) to prepare the ground for a real peace offer. The rumors of the past few weeks might be for either. There have always been important groups in both Britain and Germany, in both China and Japan, that felt war was stupid and needless. Weeks ago the Rome-Berlin Axis was supposed to be trying to get the Vatican to propose peace on the grounds that Germany could not conquer the British Isles and Britain could not conquer Europe. Hitler's travels of the last fortnight suggested that he might be planning to consolidate Europe before proposing peace...
...cooperate "economically and spiritually" with Germany on a "barter basis-the only basis Germany now knows, because she was forced to employ the barter system." Added Prophet Merten on a hint from wife Zelah: "I beg, after consideration, that you mention my connections with the American Embassy in Berlin only on your social pages, in a separate story, rather than in this interview which I dictated." Still on the Embassy payroll for two months' accumulated leave, he announced he was off to the Capital to expound his new gospel...