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...last week. If the lives of millions of little plain men had not depended on what they did, their actions would have looked a little silly. Joseph Stalin's man, Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, arrived in Berlin in the rain and was greeted by Adolf Hitler's men, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel. At Anhalt station were also the Ambassadors of China, Turkey and Japan, bowing & scraping and watching Premier Molotov's every gesture for a hint of what Boss Stalin's intentions toward their countries might...
...days later Pressureman Papen, much happier than he was a year ago when Turkey jilted Germany for the Allies, was reported on a shooting party with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano. (This was denied in Berlin.) Whatever plans the Axis had for Turkey in the future, the threat of German action through Bulgaria, if Turkey should help Greece, was enough to keep Turkey precariously neutral last week. President Inönü made a firm speech saying that his country would "continue faithful to our friendships and alliances" (Turkey...
...French Armistice was four months old, and Adolf Hitler, seconded by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, had decided to present M. Laval with German demands for the future: reportedly the use of French naval bases at Toulon, Bizerte, airfields at Beirut, Tripoli, major concessions in North Africa, perhaps territorial cessions from continental France to Germany, Italy, Spain. As persuasion he offered "a place in the New Order"-or else starvation. M. Laval took the best he could get, hurried back to Vichy...
Before the year was out, Remains went to Berlin to sell Franco-German cultural unity, was in the thick of the Saar plebiscite controversy as French liaison man for such characters as Otto Abetz (now Ambassador to Unoccupied France) and Abetz mentor, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Neither was very important then, but both were comers. Remains was impressed by Ribbentrop's "18th-Century mind," thought he was the kind of cynic who would leaven the extremism of the Nazis. He was more impressed by young Otto Abetz, who had a French wife and spoke feelingly of the cultural bonds between...
Married. Princess Henriette Schönaich-Carolath, 22, daughter of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern's second wife Princess Hermine; and Prince Karl Franz Josef of Prussia, 23, son of the ex-Kaiser's sixth son, Prince Joachim Franz Humbert; at Doorn...