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...London last week the German Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, told Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin that Berlin would immediately break off diplomatic relations with Moscow in case the OGPU should execute in Russia German Engineer Emil Ivan Stickling, who Was sentenced to death fortnight ago for "sabotage"' (TIME, Nov. 30). Ambassador von Ribbentrop then left by air through a dangerously dense fog for Berlin. In Moscow, with evident perturbation, the Soviet Council of Commissars soon issued a most singular communique, revealing that in Russia the quick-triggered OGPU sometimes get considerably ahead of the rest of the Communist mechanism...
Alighting in Berlin, Ambassador von Ribbentrop went over the head of his nominal superior, Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, and signed on behalf of the German Government the new Japanese-German treaty against the Moscow Comintern or organization for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat (TIME, Oct. 7, 1935 et ante). The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kimitomo Mushaktji, signed on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and Nazi organs spoke...
This gave acute pain to many of Joachim von Ribbentrop's hitherto close English friends, and they were further pained to learn that the German Ambassador now becomes a member of a joint German-Japanese commission which will permanently function to frustrate World Revolution. That some of this high-powered frustrating is evidently going to be done in London was unwelcome news indeed to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and he was further ruffled by reports that Herr von Ribbentrop had told Der Führer that the English of 1936 simply will not fight "unless their soil is invaded...
...sign a protest against the German Government's execution of a German Communist last week in Hamburg, and thus arouse individual British Labor sympathizers to chalk London Streets last week with anti-Nazi slogans and hurl bricks through the windows of new German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop. Brick-throwing Laborite Miss Ruth Ellen Gastar screamed in police court: "The people of the British Government wine and dine with Ribbentrop, but the British people do not want these Nazi murderers...
...French Cabinet to force them to propose the Neutrality Agreement barring arms shipments to Spain. "I wouldn't believe Eden on a stack of Bibles!" bawled Communist William Gallacher, M. P., and then savagely attacked Adolf Hitler's new Ambassador to Britain, onetime Champagne Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, who last week arrived at his post in a Nazi brown shirt. "He comes with his hands red with murder!" shrieked Red William. "I demand that this man, who is not an Ambassador but an agent for War, be driven out of this country...