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Last week Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at Milan. Foreign correspondents guessed that Italy was balking at helping, even morally, her ally Germany against her old tried-&-true friend Poland, and that the German Foreign Minister's trip (plus trips by German military men) was simply an attempt to again smooth out ruffled relations. Even the Italian press, which unanimously described the enthusiastic crowds which greeted Herr von Ribbentrop at Milan, editorially predicted that the conference would produce "no sensation...
...opinions of an ever-narrowing group of advisers. The adoring Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, who follows his leader even in his moods, is still constantly at his side. But the Führer has become so inaccessible to most of his Cabinet that only Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Dr. Goebbels are now able to ask for and get private interviews. Five-sevenths along his Biblically allotted span of life, this strange man has at least the satisfaction of knowing that he has become the most formidable political tactician of his century. Where that will finally...
Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop handed Lithuania's Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys an ultimatum (in Berlin, as always), accompanied with the usual threats of invasion. Before long Foreign Minister Urbsys delivered Lithuania's acquiescence, agreed to sign a non-agression treaty which makes Lithuania a buffer State between the Reich and Poland and the Baltic nations...
...Field Marshal Hermann Goring returned to San Remo, Italy, to resume a vacation interrupted when Czecho-Slovakia was seized, and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Propaganda Minister Goebbels were also holiday-bound. This seemed to mean (although no foreign country was counting on it) that the Mehrer was not planning any more military ventures immediately...
...Tiso's telegram was to the week's third hero-Adolf Hitler, self-appointed foster-father of Europe's orphan minorities. Hero Hitler considered the message important enough to call an immediate conference at the chancellery with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring was ordered to cut short his vacation on the Italian Riviera. Then the familiar squeak of the tightening Nazi vise 'began to be heard in Slovakia...