Word: joachim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it was apparent that the tough talk had started well ahead of schedule. It was not very impressive to begin with. Fortnight ago Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop launched an attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note...
...relieved were the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester, who might otherwise have faced the prospect of entertaining the American-born, twice-divorced Duchess in London. No less relieved were English politicos who had uncomfortably listened to rumors of the former Wally Simpson's friendship for German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, heard reports that the Duke was willing to serve as a Nazi puppet king. Frankly delighted were the Duke's supporters who pounced on the chance to give him a job and a place to live safely out of the war zone...
...Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, is the hard-boiled diplomatist of a conquering power. But as a historian he is a regular Fritz Kuhn. Last week he let himself go on the Monroe Doctrine...
...acute Prince Metternich. Actually, the Doctrine permitted powers that had American colonies in 1823 to keep them-but not to get any more.) Moreover, said von Ribbentrop, if European nations could not intervene in American continental affairs, then American nations could not interfere in European affairs. By & large, Joachim von Ribbentrop's note made plain, Germany did not respect the Monroe Doctrine...
Last winter he and Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop spent several pleasant evenings together at the cinema in Berlin. Going and coming, they would chat about the new friendly relations that had grown up between their two countries. But for the last month and a half Ambassador Shkvartsev has wished he did not know German so well, since he has had to listen to some Ribbentrop tirades that the Foreign Minister would be too cagey to put into notes...