Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...which Germany and Italy need to fight a long world war. Conquest of the Near East would further two other objectives: 1) force the Suez gateway to the Mediterranean; 2) flank Russia on the south. As Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini and Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano finished a luncheon of lobster salad, saluted one another and went their respective ways, all signs pointed to an early drive...
...long in beginning. German SS men have circulated freely in Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria recently on the pretext that they were directing the rehabilitation of Germans returning to the Fatherland. Last week in Hungary the Arrow Cross Party of Naziphile Ferenc Szalesi presented to Premier Count Paul Teleki a demand for a voice in the Government, which was a sure preliminary to the Nazification of the country and a probable invitation to the German Army. Hungary is the first station on the Drang nach Östen...
...Himmler would soon pay a visit to Spain. But since Spain has not enough food to feed Spaniards, much less a German Army, it is doubtful whether the Axis will try to storm Gibraltar until it thinks the job can be done quickly. And when Generalissimo Franco hears the count of nine over Britain, Spain will jump into the ring...
Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano hurried down from Brennero to say good-by to his Spanish friend before he flew back to Madrid from Rome. When Don Ramon alighted at Madrid's airport the people of Spain had already been told that they were remaining nonbelligerent, had shown their relief by demonstrating in the streets. They were glad to welcome El Cunadissimo home under such circumstances. Don RamÓn reviewed picked contingents of the Falangist militia, then rushed home to see his sixth child, borne by Señora Suñer the night before...
Refusing his half of the $25,000 offered by Count Marc de Tristan for the return of his three-year-old son, broad-shouldered Cecil Wetzel (who has three children) did a turn at a Los Angeles theatre instead, giving an account of the rescue (TIME, Sept. 30). He remarked: "I've got kids of my own." He netted $2,000. Winding up in San Diego (with business terrible): "I'll never go on the stage again...