GERMANY: Marks of War

The pudgy fingers of Adolf Hitler one day last week gave a soft, squashy handshake to this array of luncheon guests: His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria; Dictator Mussolini's sons Bruno and Vittorio; His Royal Highness Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and his youngest sister Maria; Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden.

Pretty Maria is to marry Archduke Otto of Habsburg in case the Dictators decide on that young man's restoration as Austrian Emperor. But the Hitler luncheon last week was too internationally complex to be more...

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