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...Joachim von Ribbentrop and Viacheslav Molotov had signed the Russian-German pact in Moscow. Twelve hours after its ratification on Aug. 31, Hitler gave the signal that sent the German armored divisions rumbling across the frontier against the Polish cavalry, the Luftwaffe against the all but defenseless Polish cities. Thus, on the fifth anniversary of World War II, the war was back where it started...
...Greece and Yugoslavia, disarming of the few German troops still in Bulgaria. ¶Hungary's astute Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved all political parties (the only undissolved parties in Hungary are pro-Nazi), called an emergency cabinet meeting, received an emergency visitor from the Reich, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Died. William Marion Cook, 75, famed pioneer Negro ragtime composer; after long illness; in Harlem. Born in Washington, Cook studied at 15 under the late great violinist Joseph Joachim in Berlin, played in the Berlin Symphony, returned to the U.S. and the music of his people, wrote scores for the late great minstrels Bert Williams and George Walker. In recent years he turned to choral composition, last year in Haiti collaborated with his son on an opera, St. Louis 'Ooman...
From Helsinki came more details of the Nazi plan to lose the war but win the peace. TIME Correspondent John Scott remained a week in Finland after the Germans took over, learned the argument which Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop advanced to lull the fears of Germans in the north. Cabled Scott...
With scarcely an audible sigh, mesmerized Finland sank into the arms of Nazi Germany. The Germans took over with only a few companies of second-rate occupation troops to back up the fast and foamy talk of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Nazis' proposition was simple: Germany would send six divisions if the Finns would keep up the fight and agree not to sign a separate peace...