Word: joachim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Correspondent M. W. Fodor wrote a sensational story of which the two main points were: 1)Germany wants to put the Duke back on the throne as its puppet (which has been journalists' gossip for months); 2) Edward's little Duchess was once the good friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop (which has been common knowledge for years). All in all, the peace story was a good yarn, and in Rome and Berlin, as well as in the U. S., press & radio played it for all it was worth...
...Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral of the Fleet Erich Raeder in a blue naval uniform and upturned stiff collar, also carrying a baton; Deputy Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess in a grey Party uniform; Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the grey uniform of the Foreign Office. As the group reached the clearing, at 3:18, Hitler's personal standard...
Once more the dark round table in Munich's white marble Fiihrerhaus held four pairs of elbows - but the other two belonged to Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano. Once more the world waited with bated breath for news of their decision - but that decision meant far more than war or peace in the time of a septuagenarian. This week the men at the round table in Munich intended to settle Europe's destiny until times unforeseeable...
...June 18. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Sir Samuel Hoare sign Anglo-German Naval Treaty...
Nach Paris. At 5 a.m. next morning a drowsy-voiced night operator summoned the press to a 6 o'clock conference. Not until 8:25 did Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop come in, pale and red-eyed from a sleepless night. His voice husky from strain, he rasped, "England and France at last dropped the mask. The attack on the Ruhr Valley was definitely planned." Then followed the usual tirade of accusation and denouncement. Belgium and The Netherlands had "plotted" against the Reich, had "fostered a German revolution," etc., etc. Long before he had finished, journalists knew that Germany...