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...Route. A private car supplied by the German Government. Inside, a crack German photographer who once accompanied Ribbentrop to Moscow, a suave German diplomat who once served in Washington. Also, elaborate trays of hors d'oeuvres, dinner of soup, roast chicken, vegetables, stewed fruit, coffee, and stout German protestations that such was the regular fare. In the U. S. party, enigmatic, icy, shiny-domed Sumner Welles; black-haired, jovial Chief of the European Affairs Division and crack career Diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat; quiet Lucius Hartwell Johnson, onetime Welles secretary newly recruited for this trip. Lights were bright behind...
Welles conferred with the American Charge d' Affairs, Alexander Kirk, tonight. Earlier he saw Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop for two and one half hours and then had a long conference with the Under Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, Baron Von Weizsaecker...
ROME, Wednesday--Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, on an observation tour of war-torn Europe for President Roosevelt, departed for Berlin at 12.10 A.M. today for conversations with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Chancellor Adolf Hitler which the Italian press believed may have a strong hearing on the future course of the Russo-Finnish conflict and the war between the Allies and Germany...
...weeks later in Berlin, French Ambassador Robert Coulondre, apparently on orders of M. Bonnet, assured Herr Ribbentrop that "France will not undertake any political steps in Eastern Europe that would disturb Germany...
...Nevertheless Herr Ribbentrop directed the Count to protest, whereupon the Ambassador reported: "M. Bonnet said that in foreign political debates before the Chamber things were often said that obviously were meant only for internal consumption and did not have any further importance." M. Bonnet contended, wired the Ambassador to his chief, that when he "braved the opposition" to put across "justified German demands," he could scarcely be expected to "abdicate all along the line before the Chamber." "If I did so," the Foreign Minister was quoted as saying, "then the warmongers would gain the upper hand...