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...back in England from a visit to New York, notes that this trip marked his 29th transatlantic flight on business for TIME. Each staff member in the Bonn bureau averages about 30,000 miles a year, "taking planes the way most people take taxis," flying to Berlin, Belgrade, Vienna, Munich or Hamburg. Says Bonn's Frank White: "This is just our 'commuting mileage,' not including flights on military planes or the deliriously rare flight home." And the Paris bureau observes : "Air travel here is like taking...
This week more than 26 million West Germans-of 33 million eligible to
vote-streamed out into the warm sunshine to make their choice. Some,
with rucksacks on their backs, queued up before polling booths as early
as 4 a.m., voted, trudged off for holiday hikes. In Munich, a team of
boxers went to their polls in boxing trunks on the
...More 1933s. German democracy, a sensitive plant at best, was not yet in mortal danger from evil men like Naumann. It might never be-yet a world that had ignored the doings in a Munich beer cellar in the '205 was not anxious to be duped again. The rise of neo-Naziism and the echoes it was getting from veterans, refugees, chauvinists, and a few big businessmen, served as a warning to the West: that in seeking German arms to solve the "Russian problem," it risks reviving the old "German problem...
...took a more contemptuous view of the Italian people than Mussolini himself. One incident or another kept him boiling. "The Duce has been made furiously angry ... by the bad behavior of some farmers from Bari who were being entertained in the Party House in Munich -they even relieved themselves on the stairs. A disgusting incident, likely to lower us to an unbelievable extent in the opinion of the Germans; The Chief . . . let fly at the 'sons of slaves...
...treated as silent partners of the Axis, and only called in when matters reached the sign-on-the-dotted-line stage. After the Austrian Anschluss, "the Duce was in a mood of irritation with the Germans . . . they ought to have given us warning-but not a word." Just before Munich, Ciano notes: "The Duce is disturbed by the fact that the Germans are letting us know almost nothing of their program with regard to Czechoslovakia...