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...their departure from the fact that Britain's Cabinet was split, with the Prime Minister confiding in none of his colleagues, while they did their best to influence him for & against Germany. His Excellency the German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch, amazingly blurted to German correspondents in London: "The situation is becoming very dangerous for us. It is uncomfortably like that of 1914-The British are wavering as they did then. But also, as in the eleventh hour in 1914, they are now beginning to stiffen...
...John said he had received from German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch "solemn assurance" that no invasion of the Saar by Germany will occur. Expressing his "satisfaction," Sir John then announced that "there has never been any question" of using British troops to restrain the invasion in question...
...over the London papers was a beauteous Fraulein by the name of Emma Kant. Her claim upon German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch is that she is not only "Miss Germany" but also the grandniece of that gloomy Teuton, Philosopher Immanuel Kant. Would not the German Ambassador consent to be one of the judges...
Before Ambassador von Hoesch replied. the Soviet envoy, Comrade Ivan Maisky, was heard from. He denounced "Miss Russia." "She is no true woman of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic!" cried excitable Ambassador Maisky. "This so-called 'Miss Russia' is not a Bolshevik woman in any sense but a White Russian...
Undeniably the grandniece of Immanuel Kant, Miss Germany nonetheless was officially rebuffed by Ambassador von Hoesch. "She is not of pure Aryan blood," he announced.* "Moreover the regime of Realmleader Hitler is strongly antagonistic to this whole proceeding of choosing a 'Miss Europe...