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...know, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi Foreign Minister, used to be a liquor salesman. I enclose for the delectation of your readers a letter he wrote in 1928 to a Jewish friend of mine about the purchase of some Pommery Champagne. On the letterhead von Ribbentrop's telegraphic address is given as "Weinribbentrop, Berlin" and the chief brands he represented were Pommery & Greno Champagne, Meukow Cognac, Johnnie Walker Whiskey and Grande Chartreuse Liqueur; note also that he refers to the firm of "Schoeneberg & Ribbentrop." Von Ribbentrop, the future Nazi, winds up his letter by asking to be remembered...
...more than eight weeks Hitler and Göring have not ex changed more than a few words. . . . The last time Göring visited Hitler's Chancel lery at Berlin was Nov. 24. ... Neutral diplomats who prefer to see Goring rather than Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop must travel to Schoríheide [Göring's hunting chalet]. They have brought back reports of angry outbursts by Göring against Hitler's policy." Hardly was the Herald's ink dry on this story when Berlin correspondents found No. 2 Nazi Göring...
...signing in Moscow's Kremlin on the night of August 23-24 of the Nazi-Communist "NonAggression" Pact was a diplomatic demarche literally world-shattering. The actual signers were German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov, but Comrade Stalin was there in person to give it his smiling benediction, and no one doubted that it was primarily his doing. By it Germany broke through British-French "encirclement," freed herself from the necessity of fighting on two fronts at the same time. Without the Russian pact, German generals would certainly have been loath...
...extended to Moscow. This was a plain intimation that Italy thought Germany had run out on the Anti-Comintern Pact. Moreover, the Italians were warned of the Russian-German treaty only two days before it was signed. "At 10 o'clock in the evening of Aug. 21, Ribbentrop telephoned me that he was going to Moscow on the 23rd to sign the pact of non-aggression between the Reich and the U. S. S. R.," recounted Count Ciano...
...burst with pride at the latest achievement of laborious German scholarship, secretaries of the Berlin Foreign Office last week called in correspondents of all nations to inspect a 100,000-word White Book titled Documentary pre-History of War. Published simultaneously in twelve languages, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's rebuttal to Lord Halifax consists of 482 documents adduced to prove the complete war guiltlessness of Nazi Germany...