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...wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, detonated a seven-day wonder by accusing British "personalities" (or "officials": translations varied) of talking peace with Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...which shouted to the world that the issue ran deeper than the Polish controversy. Said Pravda: From "reliable Greek and Yugoslav sources" in Cairo, it had learned that a secret meeting took place recently in a seacoast city of the Pyrenees between two British officials and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop-"to find out the conditions of a separate peace with the Germans. It is understood that the meeting did not remain without results...
According to this account, German Ambassador Otto Abetz had traveled to Vichy, ready to lay down the law with a six-page letter in Joachim von Ribbentrop's most violent vein. The message accused Petain of "departing from the policy agreed on at Montoire," and made three main demands...
...Foreign Office was burned, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' house gutted, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
...pursuit of this policy, Stalin and Molotov welcomed Joachim von Ribbentrop to the Kremlin and launched out upon the Soviet Union's brief and fateful course of collaboration with Nazi Germany. Five weeks before Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R., Stalin took over the Premiership from Molotov, assigned him primarily to Foreign Affairs. In May 1942 Foreign Commissar Molotov climbed into a four-motored bomber, flew west to seek friends...