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...that he accepted the resignations of Field Marshal von Blomberg and General von Fritsch but also that he assumed control of the War Ministry himself and further-to make his defiant mood unmistakable-accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath, appointing to replace him Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the chief Nazi architect of the anti-Communist pact of Germany, Japan and Italy (TIME...
...document signed by Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, by Japanese Ambassador Masaaki Hotta and by German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week declares that "Italy will be considered an original signatory of the pact" between Japan and Germany, although it was signed last year, and that Italy's signature last week is "equivalent to signature of the original pact." Ambassadors Hotta and von Ribbentrop, having signed this ludicrous concession to a Dictator's vanity, were each rewarded by Vittorio Emanuele III, King and Emperor, with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice & Lazarus...
...that at this point Britain, France, Germany and Italy would act in the spirit of their Four-Power Pact signed in 1933 and settle the question without Russia. Just arrived in London from Rome, where he had conferred at length with Premier Mussolini, was the German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, chief confidant of the Führer on foreign affairs. He surprised the Nonintervention Committee by declaring that Germany demanded it act in unanimity-that is, fail to act if Russia continued to balk- and Italian Ambassador Grandi backed up Herr von Ribbentrop. This week the committee was to meet...
...interest to Langen & Co. is Harvard-educated Ernst ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, onetime chief of Foreign Press Relations in Germany and a favorite of Hitler, who liked to hear him play the piano. Last February Putzy fell from grace, fled to Switzerland, thence to London. He had indiscreetly called Joachim von Ribbentrop Nazi Ambassador to London, "Bnckendrop."* He had referred to the Moors fighting in Spain for German-aided General Franco as the "new friends of Aryan culture...
...reference to the diplomatic brick dropped on British toes by Ribbentrop when he greeted King George with a Nazi salute (TIME...