Word: ribbentrop
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...machine from their boss. Out went violently pro-German Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace and Minister of Popular Culture (Propaganda) Oboardo Dino Alfieri. These dismissals had the effect of raising the prestige of Il Duce's son-in-law, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who loathed Ribbentrop and Hitler for treating him like a naive youngster in politics, and who won an immense popular following by backing the policy of peace...
...made a show of sending planes to Finland over Germany's protest and territory. When the Allies seemed on a spot, he called off the British trade talks, got into a jam with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them. Il Duce moved to renew the British trade talks...
...foreigners who have met him have failed to fall under the spell of Göring's gusty charm. In that he has served Germany well. Joachim von Ribbentrop (whom Göring hates) keeps relations smooth with Russia. But in Italy, where Germans are not too well liked, it is Göring who keeps things running with the Mussolinis. (He named his daughter after Edda Ciano.) Neutral diplomats prefer to talk to Göring, rather than to listen to Hitlerian tirades. And the fact that the British Foreign Office always found him willing to listen accounts...
Hitler is head of the Nazis, but Rudolf Hess is the Party's chief organizer. Göring and Hess are friends, work together against Himmler, Ribbentrop, Goebbels and other extremists of the Party. And never forgotten by either of them is the fact that Hitler named Göring as his successor, Hess to succeed Göring...
...street fighter for those of politician, administrator and statesman. He is the only one of Hitler's early supporters who has grown in ability as well as power. Although he holds no diplomatic position, he has been close to Hitler in matters of foreign policy, and Ribbentrop's current influence may not last beyond Germany's need of Russia to fight England. Göring expects to fight the Russians some day. Before war began, his idea of what Germany's foreign policy should be was straightforward: Germany should rule Europe and let Britannia rule...