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...climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank attack was launched. The button that Fuhrer Hitler had to press was the announcement that Joachim von Ribbentrop was flying to Moscow to sign a non-aggression pact with Russia. At midnight, irresistible hour to lovers of mystery, the Fuhrer pressed the button...
...wondrous flight of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow to sign a Pact had jogged the world (TIME, Aug. 28), the Pact's actual wording really shook it. Nub of the Pact was contained in Articles...
...more frequent: Hermann Goring, vacationing in Italy, with Soviet Ambassador to Italy Boris Stein, an avowed plugger for the Pact; Franz von Papen with high officials in Moscow, twice; and, three weeks ago,when all was arranged, Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano with the prospective signer, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Count Ciano went home in a state of high nervous excitement...
...Tuesday, when Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop took off for Moscow, and on Wednesday, when he signed the Pact, all Germany was jubilant. The press gloated, called the Axis "blockade proof," chided the English & French for "groveling before the Kremlin." The radio gloated some more. By nightfall Berlin's streets were as gay as any holiday. Cafes along Kurfurstendamm overflowed. It was good sport to salute friends with "Heil Stalin," and when some young blades rang the doorbell of the Soviet Embassy, shouted "Heil Moscow" and ran away, that was very funny too. In a midtown Bierstube, a band...
...Minister and big landowner, who signed Hungary into the Anti-Comintern Pact. When Führer Hitler and Count Ciano met in the mountains of Bavaria last fortnight, Count Csaky was near by, remaining at the foot of the mountain but conferring daily with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. When Count Ciano flew back to Rome, Count Csaky soon followed. When Count Ciano was too busy to see the U. S., British or French Ambassadors, he still had time to spend an hour and ten minutes with Count Csaky. When II Duce was making mysteries by his silence...