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...London Times, stuffiest of all London dailies, not only represents the official opinion of the British Government but prepares many of its leading editorials with Government and Palace assistance. Seldom is that fact as frankly admitted as it was last week. Following the blunt announcement of Nazi Foreign Minister Constantin von Neurath at Stuttgart fortnight ago, interpreted abroad to mean that the German Government would soon ask diplomatic immunity for three "cultural attaches" to take the place of the three newspaper men recently ousted from Britain as Nazi agents (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.), the London Times ponderously announced that...
...Baron Constantin von Neurath, Foreign Minister, only recently become a Nazi Party member, delivered the keynote speech of the expatriate Congress: "We have no thought of going contrary to the generally accepted rules regulating the rights of foreigners, but we will not tolerate that foreign governments should discriminate against Germans within their boundaries because of Nazi affiliations...
...With the then British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps vigorous Mr. Gordon teamed and they were long the only two diplomats in Berlin who stickled for their nationals' rights and stood up to the Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset by the havoc Nazis were playing with the traditions of the German Foreign Office, the Baron had determined to resign...
Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, a diplomat of the old regime and no Nazi hothead, who was coming to London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration...
...etching frontispiece, executed in drypoint by Charles Blessing of Boston. Another highspot in art-work is the Album's departure from the usual reprinting of familiar college scenes. Replacing these is a series of lithographs from unusual pencil sketches of the Houses--the WORK of the Russian artist, Constantin A. Pertzoff...