Evening star., 1937-09-29
MUSSOL|N| TAKES
LEAVE OF HITLER
Shakes Hands Warmly With
Hitler at End of Five.Day
Demonstration.

h& Saturday morning and, after
being teted in Munich By Retchs-
tuehrer Hitler and aides, iDns taken
}or inspection OF Germany Army
ndneupers and later We,Ded steel
plants in Essen, Dhere Germanv's
ne,o arms are being forged. He
Went on to Berlin NTH Hitler, being
Delcomed By nearly million persons,
and last night both dictators spoke
to more than three million persons
na1ssed around May Field.
~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN. September 29.-Like pals,
Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mus
eolini parted today. ending = five-day
demonstration Of Fascist-Nazi solidar-
ity in troubled Europe.
Both smiled broadly and appeared
10 be extraordinarily we'll satisfied as
they clasped hands warmly in farewell
1T $50 pm. (9:30 am. E. S. To on
the Lehrter Station platform.
They chatted a few minutes. with
n Duce leanning out his car window
before the Italian special train puffed
out OF the station Hitler sent Rudolf
Hess, German Minister without port
folio, along to the German Austrian
border with the Italian party. The
train was scheduled to reach the border
early tomorrow.
Mussolini's last appearance before
the Berlin public was in his ride with
Hitler along sort of "conquerors
trail en- route to the station between
hens Of thousands of cheering, yelling
admirers lined up along the way.
Military Pomp at station.
Army detachments, naval units and
even the air force turned out ut the
station with bands to send II Duce
on his way with the same fiare and
military pomp 10 which he has been
accustomed on his five-day visit to
NAZi Germany.
Cabinet members and prominent
Nazi party members were on hand to
do the honors for Hitler's distinguIshed
guest. The political side Of the pic
hlre was emphasized by the presence
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Franco. head of insurgent SpAin's
government, and ministers of Austria
and Hungary
II Duce and Der Fuehrer walked
before the guards the few hundred
feet into the station. Hitler noticed
= group OF Berlin Italians In Fascist
uniforms some distance away. He took
n Duce's arm and nodded to them.
Mussolini then stepped forward with
broad smile and saluted.
Side by side. the two heads Of state
then entered the station to exchange
farewells which appeared more cor
dial and marked by less formality than
when they met last Saturday at
Munich for their first personal get
together in three years.
Duce Honors War Dead.
Earlier Mussolini honored Germany's
World War dead, then reviewed 4
mammoth display Of the Third Reich,s
military strength.
Side by side on reviewing stand ut
Charlottenburg Polytechnical School,
the Italian and his host, Chancellor
Hitler. watched rs crack units OF Ger
many's new army on parade.
Fifteen thousand officers and men
and 1000 motorized units passed before
them in the hour-and- three quarters
display. 1t was hourishing finale for
Mussolini's visit.
Mussolini went to the review after
solemnly placing 6-foot wreath OF
bay leaves at the foot of 0ermany's
monument to her war dead.
Won BIomberg "a Stand.
With II Duce and Reichsfuehrer
Hitler on the reviewing stand were
Marshal Werner Won Blomberg, Ger
man war minister, and Admiral Erich
RAeder, German naval chief.
Military attaches Of foreign powers,
including Maj. Truman Smith OF the
United States Embassy, were In stands
behind the two leaders of state. Until
Today the event had been planned as
IN exclusive ItaIo- German affair.
Yelling throngs packed the way
from Wilhelmstrasse through Tiergar-
ten to the Polytechnical Schools pa
rade ground. Among them were
countless numbers Of the some 3.OOO.-
900 persons who cheered Hitler and
his guest when last evening they
braved a driving rain to make . joint
overture for European security that
would exclude '1,0lShevisrn