Italy occupied a highly delicate position in Europe's current political landscape. It appeared to be neutral, holding the initiative in diplomacy, yet in reality, Italy had conflicts with both camps.
Therefore, Italy's desire to have it both ways was feasible in the early stages. If it had no ambitions, remaining neutral all along was not impossible either.
But Italy's prime minister, Benito, was clearly not someone who could sit idle. His ambitions were no less great than Adolf's.
September 11, 1934.
Rhine City.
Amid their work on economic statistics, Crown Prince Friedrich and the other East African leaders had been closely following developments in the Austro-Hungarian Empire's war.
"Germany has now occupied Prague, and the major cities of northern and western Bohemia are also under its control. The German army's progress along the southern route has been good as well, advancing rapidly toward Vienna."
"However, Germany has not moved farther south to support or absorb the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the southwestern theater. It is probably wary of Italy's attitude."
East African Minister of Defense Schwaiger planted flags across the sand table. Red represented Germany, yellow the Labor Party, green Italy, and blue the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
It was plain to the naked eye that the red German flags were multiplying. Though there were quite a few green flags representing Italian forces, they were mostly concentrated west of Venice.
The yellow Labor Party flags were gradually dwindling, but showed a trend of expanding in the east.
As Schwaiger planted flags along the Danube River, he said, "The Austro-Hungarian Empire Government forces are now facing a grave problem. Because of the previous Hungarian incident, the Austro-Hungarian Empire dismantled a number of fortresses between Vienna and Hungary in an attempt to strengthen its control over Hungary."
"And now, this has