Word: ribbentrop
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...salesman she picked 75-year-old Sven Anders Hedin, explorer, adventurer, surveyor, mapmaker, Orientalist -but no professional diplomat. Happening to be in Berlin to thank Adolf Hitler for a decoration from the German Government, he called on and had a two-hour talk with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Saturday. Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop headed for Rome...
...front for peace, thus bringing her into more cordial relations with Russia? Was Italy, raging mad at Great Britain on account of the coal controversy (see col. 3), to make her final choice and plunge into the war on Germany's side? No. As it turned out, Herr Ribbentrop was just going to see the Pope...
Hitler. But Berlin soon knew that he was there. Of his 60 hours, Sumner Welles spent nearly three talking with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (after which the press popped with inspired stories of Germany's demands before she would discuss peace: a free hand in the Balkans, recognition of her Czecho-Slovakian and Polish conquests). In the remaining 57, he found time to attend the opera (The Marriage of Figaro), be quietly feted by Alexander Kirk, U. S. charge d'affaires in Berlin, call on the Italian Ambassador. He also...
...been in seclusion in the Chancellery for a week before Welles arrived. Whether he had spent the week brooding on things to ask for as the price for making peace, the Welles interview was no sooner over than doubly inspired stories popped in the press-twice as extravagant as Ribbentrop's demands, more grandiose than the Kaiser's dream of the drive to the East, a tumultuous welter of claims, charges, accusations; demands for Suez, Gibraltar, Singapore; denunciations of British naval bases as pirate hideouts; insistence that Germany could no more tolerate Britain in Southeast Europe than...