Word: dieckhoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Adolf Hitler took over Austria, his Ambassador in Washington, Hans Dieckhoff, quietly took over the Austrian Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue without protest from popular Austrian Minister Edgar Prochnik. Last week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence of Herr Dieckhoff is Adolf Hitler's No. i man in the U. S.), received orders to take over the building standing right next door to the late Austrian Legation-the Legation of Czecho-Slovakia. He ordered two secretaries to go over and take possession. After they left he rang...
...shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff had been called home; moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, dean of the diplomatic corps, was vacationing in Britain, but Lady Lindsay attended, holding a little court of her own in the Green Room instead of going down the handshaking line...
...State Cordell Hull left behind him two large blank spaces in U. S. foreign relations such as the country has not seen in many a year. Over one blank stood the name of Germany. In one of the shortest diplomatic calls on record-two minutes-German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff said good-by to Mr. Hull before taking himself back to Germany for a stay as "indefinite" as U. S. Ambassador Wilson's (see col. 1). In addition, Secretary Hull published the texts of an exchange of notes with Germany, begun in October and finished last week, by which...
Three days elapsed before Adolf Hitler & Co. replied to Franklin Roosevelt. They did so in the same idiom as Ambassador Wilson's recall. Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff was ordered home from Washington to explain what the official Nazi news agency called the "eigenartig" ("singular") attitude...
Greenwich Time'?, suggestion that the U. S. recall its Ambassador to Germany, and invite Germany to do likewise with her envoy in Washington, was followed, within one and four days respectively, by official announcement of the summons of Hugh R. Wilson from Berlin and of Hans H. Dieckhoff from Washington. It was an auspicious occasion on which to celebrate Greenwich Time'?, first birth day. Seer Williams is now betting on a world war within a year, foresees the removal of the British Empire's capital to Ottawa...