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Baron Constantin von Neurath, Foreign Minister, only recently become a Nazi Party member, delivered the keynote speech of the expatriate Congress: "We have no thought of going contrary to the generally accepted rules regulating the rights of foreigners, but we will not tolerate that foreign governments should discriminate against Germans within their boundaries because of Nazi affiliations...
...then British Ambassador to Germany Sir Eric Phipps vigorous Mr. Gordon teamed and they were long the only two diplomats in Berlin who stickled for their nationals' rights and stood up to the Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset by the havoc Nazis were playing with the traditions of the German Foreign Office, the Baron had determined to resign...
Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, a diplomat of the old regime and no Nazi hothead, who was coming to London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration...
...about the "insult to German honor" which he saw in the coldness of Britain and France to all schemes for doing anything about the dent in the Leipzig. He was also emboldened by the daily bad news, from Russia, bitterest foe of Germany (see p. 18). Telling old von Neurath not to stir out of Berlin, Herr Hitler rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence of the Foreign Minister from Berlin. The British Ambassador has been...
...fervor for nearly an hour and a half. The condensed official summary issued afterward ran to nine typewritten pages of fulminations against "the Bolshevist incendiaries of Valencia" and praise for the attitude of Benito Mussolini "which absolutely corresponds with that of Germany!" Even the newsorgan closest to mild von Neurath screamed in Berlin: "The only way to cope with the Red pirates is to weaken their military position...