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...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...
...evidently told his German friends just how much of a war Spain could fight to get the spoils she covets: Gibraltar, French Morocco, Oran. Day after day, while Herr von Ribbentrop was gone, he frittered away his time, going to 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...
Next day Herr von Ribbentrop spent two hours with Benito Mussolini. Foreign correspondents, of the U. S. and of all those little nations which may be swallowed like oysters, buttonholed their Foreign Office friends, got only mysterious shakes of the head. Equally mysterious were the newspapers. Virginio Gayda's Giornale d'ltalia struck the true Walrus-&-Carpenter note in an editorial headlined No Hurry. "There is no necessity to tell all at this moment," wrote Mouthpiece Gayda...
Walrus von Ribbentrop postponed his return to Berlin, spent a whole day ostentatiously sight-seeing with Carpenter Ciano. They lunched at the country club (which used to be a British hangout), lingered in long conversation over coffee...
...Europe that South America has to the United States." The Axis idea of how to treat their South America was to divide it up among themselves, perhaps tossing a few crumbs to an Axis-dominated France. Drawing their new map of the continent, Foreign Ministers Ciano and von Ribbentrop awarded North Africa to Italy (with bits for Spain and France), Central Africa to Germany. In the south, they agreed, Germany would recover lost German South-West Africa and the rest of the Union of South Africa would be left free to make its own choice. The joker in that...