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...week the U. S. public had read too many times that Mr. Welles, like some train that leaves the station at some odd minute nobody can remember, had entered Hitler's Chancellery at exactly 11:06 and departed at 12:01, had pulled into the presence of Il Duce at precisely 3:14 and departed at 4:28, had gone off to lunch with Count Ciano at 1:01 and returned to his hotel...
Sumner Welles, official U. S. roving factfinder, arrived back in Rome after a trip to Berlin, Paris, London. Without delay he saw Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for 70 minutes, King Vittorio Emanuele for 45, Il Duce for 75. Mr. Welles held his tongue, but postponed his sailing back to the U. S. for a day. U. S. Secretary of State Hull denied in Washington that Mr. Welles had acted as an intermediary in Europe's quarrels...
Intermediary or not, Mr. Welles suddenly found himself a spectator at what could well be the greatest diplomatic squeeze play of the war. Sunday, from a Rome platform, Il Duce, wearing a dark civilian suit and carrying a heavy black coat, jumped into a special train and headed north. At about the same time in Berlin, the Fuhrer caught a southbound special express. Nobody but the diplomats involved-and Mr. Welles-had received the slightest notice of the rendezvous...
Monday at 9:30 a. m., Il Duce's trim train pulled in at the little mountain village of Brennero, in the famed Brenner Pass, just over the German border in Italy. Forty minutes later the Führer's train arrived in a driving snow storm...
Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car. A red carpet, flanked by specially provided potted palms pointed...