Word: ribbentrop
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...about six weeks. Hitler last week was handed what Chamberlain had to say by British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who brought the papers personally from London. This week the Führer's reply will be taken to London by the new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The French Ambassador was messenger boy in London last week for Premier Chautemps. From London this week British Ambassador Lord Perth, onetime Secretary General of the League of Nations, hurried to Premier Mussolini...
...Adolf Hitler who brought the long latent Chamberlain-Eden quarrel to a crisis. The action of the Fuhrer fortnight ago, after cracking down on German Army leaders, of appointing as his Foreign Secretary dynamic, scheming, adventurous Joachim von Ribbentrop, was taken by the English as a storm signal for Europe, especially since last week Ribbentrop was closeted with the Dictator in his mountain retreat. With what policies should His Majesty's Government seek to steer majestically through the storm? It came to Mr. Eden's ears that Mr. Chamberlain, in commenting to other members of the Cabinet upon...
Austrians became worried to the point of panic last week, when they suddenly read in their papers that Chancellor Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg had not only slipped out of Austria without warning but was actually conferring in Bavaria with Adolf Hitler and new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at the mountain snuggery of the Fuhrer...
...votes for installing an Austrian Nazi Cabinet which in turn would merge Austria with Germany. Given last week this situation of pent-up Austrian politics, given Herr Hitler's need of a spectacular success to cap his crackdown on the German Army fortnight ago, and given Herr von Ribbentrop's reputation for sticking at nothing, only one thing more was needed to make Adam's apples bob in Austrian throats. Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion...
...secret Cabinet Council "for the purpose of advising the Führer in the conduct of foreign policy." Old Baron von Neurath, who had just been kicked out as Foreign Minister, was made the so-called "president" of this council, but into it went also new Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Göring, Propaganda Minister Dr. Goebbels, Naval Chief of Staff Admiral-General Erich Raeder and Major General Wilhelm Keitel who was appointed last week Adolf Hitler's "deputy" as War Minister and Chief of the High Command...