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Learned Insult. It all started about the time that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop returned to Germany early last week after an apparently cool reception in Rome. Conclusion was reached that the Axis was bending. Fascist Journalist Giovanni Ansaldo even wrote an editorial for Leghorn's Telegrafo which contained a studied, learned insult...
...Ribbentrop] who, while we write, is mounting the Alps, which close Lamagna above Tiralli, we send our respectful salute," wrote Signer Ansaldo. The quotation is from Dante's Divine Comedy and no educated Italian needs to be told, it is often used to express the Italian command to the Germanic hordes to stay beyond the Alps...
Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car. A red carpet, flanked by specially provided potted palms pointed...
Before the audience took place, the Holy See, in an unusual Sunday communique, let the world know that it was Herr Ribbentrop and not the Pope who sought the meeting. German sources in Rome predicted that the Foreign Minister would not discuss Poland; Vatican sources retorted that it is not the visitor who decides what will be discussed at a Papal audience but the Pope himself. Age-old protocol sternly prohibits a visitor from bringing up new subjects before His Holiness...
Nevertheless, the Ribbentrop-Pius talk was unprecedentedly long - 65 minutes. Known results of the meeting: Herr Ribbentrop was : 1) not required to kneel and kiss the Papal ring; 2) did not give the Nazi salute to the Pope as he once did to Britain's George VI; 3) greeted His Holiness with "three profound bows." Most extraordinary surmise as to the text of Pope and Minister's secret conversation came from Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times. He thought the German had proposed an anti-Bolshevik crusade...