Show up to date highway will link italy and germ germany any expect to cut motoring time to fourteen hours washington D C rome was not built in a day but eventually it will be made in a day by automobile from germany plans have been approved for an mile super highway binding berlin to rome to be completed by 1941 arrow straight wherever possible free of grade crossings and speed limits the road will reduce motoring time between the two capitals to a predicted 14 hours of the total length 47 per cent will be in italy from there it will cross austria and proceed north through germany this highway of modern tempo across three countries coincides in places with an ancient R roman 0 man via says the national society both then and now the route was chosen to stimulate circulation between the sunny mediterranean civilization of italy and the north the road have many opposites in in their respective histories berlin was a provincial city of somewhat over people a ce century a ago go rome was a world power before the beginning of the christian era now rome with a million inhabitants spreads its domes and florid towers over so much more than seven lulls hills that it is one of the favorite candidates for the title of the worlds most extensive city berlin ranks ranks sixth in area but has four times the population of its southern sister city industries do not figure in the activities of rome germanys germanas Germ anys capital on the other hand is also her industrial center the road from rome rolls north over the broad plain of the campana and climbs out of the tiber valley over tuscan hills in fact the rome to berlin highway goes over mountains between mountains or at least through landscape with blue hints of hills around th the e rim rim practically the first half of its way exceptions are the broad rolling campana which surrounds rome and the ample plain of the po between florence and bologna the road launches right over the apennine range the craggy shinbone which runs the length of the italian boot on the southern side lies the peaceful town of pistoia whose medieval name and fame survive in the modern pistol on the other side of the apen nines lies bologna whose university once drew famous men to its colonnaded streets here galvani was studying the effect of electricity at first called galvanism on frogs legs at about the same time franklin was baiting kites to catch lightning through old verona Bolo gnas brick wall and its famous pair of leaning towers disappear across the rich plain of the po valley as verona is approached there according to shakespeare was staged one of the worlds greatest romances the tragic love of romeo and juliet passing the east side of lake garda with its orange and olive grove border the route to the north leaves the lombardy plain and climbs allward through the trentino district where roman control 2000 2 years ago has more recently recent y been disputed by german austrian austria and french domination the cou country however has been italian again since the conclusion of the world war the little patch of tyrol is part of Aus A alpine I 1 p j ne elbow nudging germany away from italy dominating the valley in which the inn river is cradled between two ridges of alps the ancient town of inns bridge has grown up to be modern innsbruck Inns bruck with inhabitants Aus fourth largest city from innsbruck Inns bruck the road north toils up to germany entering through a pass obligingly punched by a tyrolian tyrolean Tyr olian glacier afons ago from the bavarian alps highest area in germany travel spills down into the south german basin of bavaria where the southern metropolis of munich buzzes with many industries dus tries across the danube to the north sticks to its traditional industry the manufacture of playthings from the rometo rome to berlin route turns eastward toward leipzig from leipzig the road slashes across the north german plain to berlin ern facing german plain dominated by berlin which slopes toward the north sea and the baltic the highway crosses Aus western end so that throughout the whole journey international motorists will drive to the right it is in eastern austria that keep to the left is the rule of the road road runs due north the route is a slash almost due north across central europe berlin lacks only two degrees of 0 latitude of being mapped straight above rome the capitals at opposite ends of |