The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-25

The first meeting was on Italian soil - shortly before Austrian Nazis murdered Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and Mussolini marched an army to the Brenner Pass for war with Germany.
 Hitler greeted Mussolini in the main station concourse. Newspaper correspondents and members of the public were excluded, so they did not see the salutes. It was recalled that at their first meeting, Musso- lini snapped out with the Fascist salute, that Hitler-in @ rumpled raincoat-responded with the Nazi salute and they then shook hands.
 Walked Out Together
 Together, Mussolini and Hitler wolked from the station. The sta ton walls were covered with red cloth. The floor was newly carpeted. As Mussolini emerged from the sta- ton, he was faced by gigantic laurel wreath encircling a great letter M, and by two heroic fasces (bundles of rods from which an axe blade protrudes, Imperial Roman symbol of magisterial au- thority) of eagles sur mounted the fasces.
 Trumpets sounded. Guns thund- cred in a 21-gun salute. Military bands played Deutschland Ueber Alles, the Horst Vessel hymn which is the Nazi anthem, and the Ital- ian National Anthem.
 Through a triumphal arch of evergreens on which golden fasces were mounted Mussolini and Hitler stepped out into the station square and inspected a guard of honor formed by nhonor battalion of the army.
 Both Well Dressed
 Mussolini was dressed in his fav- orite blue gray uniform of honor. ary corporal of the fascis militia with the blue sash of the order oi the Annunciata across his heart Hitler, as on the previaus meet ing, wore the simple storm troor uniform entirely bare of symbols oi rank.
 The weather had cleared after days of persistent rain and an early morning fog. The sun shone inter- mittently.
 Thousands upon thousands oi Nazi storm troops and the crack black uniformed bodyguards were rigid at attention - but with theil eyes alert for the slightest move by any of the thousands of common people who might make an overt move toward the dictators.
 There was a triumphal motor caI drive through streets packed witf cheering people-and between dou. ble lines of Nazi storm troopers tc the Prince Karl Palace, Mussolini's home during his hour visit before he leaves with Hitler for the army maneuvers along the Baltic coast.
 Secret Police of Italy
 Mussolini's own secret police, here for weeks, mingled with German secret police along the route. Some estimated that 80,000 storm troopers were on duty in the city. Nazis re- membered what happened to King Alexander of Jugoslavia, killed with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou as he arrived at Marseilles three years ago for a similar state visit. Police had instructed the pub- lie that throwing of flowers "or other objects" was forbidden. Police permission was required to open windows of homes along the route Police checked up passports of for eigners in hotels.
 Mussolini had but a short time at his cne-day nome" here. His first engagement was to visit little. at the Fuehrer's private hc:1le for a 90 minute talk. Next was placing a wreath at the Eazi Chapel ot Hnor" where lie the bodies of men killed in the 1923 "beer cellar putsch, Hitler's first bid for power.
 Another Talk Coming
 At 3 p. m. (10 a. m. EDT) Hitler and Mussolini were to have another talk, then at 5:45 D. m. Visit the house of German art and attend a tea to which leading Nazi-approved artists were invited.
 Hitler and Mussolini were to leave together for the army maneuvers in the north at 6:50 p. m. d:5O D. m. EDT). They will arrive in Berlin Monday afternoon. The big event or the Berlin visit is a triumphant assembly at the Olympic Stadium Tuesday evening, when Hitler and Mussolini make speeches. Mussolini is to leave Wednesday 1ight.