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Eastern Europe's eyes last week were on onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II's former hunting lodge Rominten and upon Memel. Master of Rominten today is Germany's No. 2 Nazi, beefy General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, great friend of beefy Field Marshal Julius Combos, Premier of Hungary. One morning last week the Premier, who characteristically has Hungarian soldiers punished by flogging, climbed into an airplane sent by General Goring to fetch him. Soaring from Hungary to East Prussia, Premier Combos alighted to find Hunt Host Goring surrounded by German and Polish officials including the rabidly anti-Soviet chairman...
...hunt but an extremely vital three-power conference on the situation created when Soviet Russia made a pact with the Czechoslovak Republic under which, if Russia is attacked, Red planes will be able to operate from Czech bases within striking distance of Germany and Poland (TIME, May 27). The Rominten conference last week was tentative and ultra hush-hush, but Eastern European wiseacres assumed that on the fire was a German-Polish-Hungarian air pact sure to enrage Moscow and of fateful significance in Vienna, where Austria's government keeps wondering just how long it will be before Adolf...