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...surprised to see the flags the children carried, but newspaper correspondents were. For a fortnight they had been led to expect that the big Axis doings which were obviously under way had to do with Don Ramón's country. While German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop conferred with Count Ciano and Benito Mussolini in Rome they had filed Foreign-Office-inspired dispatches about Axis designs on Gibraltar, on the Near East, on Africa-but hardly a line about the Far East. This morning they learned that they had been thoroughly hoaxed. Lean, hollow-eyed...
...took shape. Its precise contours were draped in more than usual secrecy, but the outlines showed through. Spain's Minister of Government and Falangist Party Leader Ramón Serrano Suñer, in Berlin on a visit, had several long talks with Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, then one long one with Adolf Hitler. Next day Herr von Ribbentrop left for Rome...
...Brussels for a sight-seeing trip through German-occupied territory, twiddling his thumbs in Berlin. While German newspapers pointedly referred to Spain as the third member of the Axis and third power in Hitler's Europe, Don Ramón waited impatiently to hear what had passed between Joachim von Ribbentrop and his Italian friends...
...stop him from entering a Nazi rally. "Better not go in there, buddy," said the cop. "They're all anti-Semites." There was the only normal Nazi, Rudolf Hess, called "Fraulein" because he is hysterical Hitler's nursemaid and governess. There was the ex-wine salesman, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who used to be much in demand for amateur theatricals in the homes of rich and cultured Jews, because he played effete Englishmen in Oscar Wilde plays. There was Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, about whom the Munich police in 1923 made a mistake his secret police would never make...
Reunion in Vienna. In Belvedere Palace in Vienna, where two years ago the Rome-Berlin Axis graciously gave Hungary a nibble of Czecho-Slovakia, Counts Teleki and Csaky again met their Axis mentors last week. Besides their old friends, Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano, they had the pleasure of meeting Rumanian Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu. M. Manoilescu had been summoned by the Axis. The German and Italian Foreign Ministers were there simply to lend their good offices to the discussions, to point the way to a resumption of negotiations...