Word: reinebeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guatemala confiscated its German-owned railway, heard with satisfaction that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to Central America who tried to torpedo the Havana Conference in 1940 and who was expelled from headquarters in Guatemala, had been met when his ship docked in Brooklyn, escorted to a reunion with other German diplomats at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...
...Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note of warning among the small but touchy nations that lie near the Panama Canal...
While the Americas prepared to discuss plans for a western hegemony, the shadow of an uninvited guest fell ominously across the conference city. Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister to Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, delivered a note to the five latter Central American Republics (Panama was excluded), warning them that the conference would move Western Hemisphere nations away from neutrality, that the Nazis would retaliate (by unannounced means) should the delegates act against Germany. And Secretary of State Cordell Hull, head of the U. S. delegation to Havana, promptly barked back...
...Panama American defiantly applauded Hull's action, praised him for "tweaking the nose of Reinebeck, who is notorious for his interference with matters not his concern...
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