Word: brickendrop
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Colossal ineptitude had been Foreign Minister Ribbentrop's hallmark.* When he visited Britain in 1937, peddling collaboration with Hitler against Russia, he greeted King George with a Nazi salute and earned the sobriquet of "Herr Brickendrop." At a dinner with Winston Churchill, Ribbentrop blurted: "The next war will be different for we will have the Italians on our side." Churchill grinned and cracked: "That's only fair-we had 'em last time...
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