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...Shake? In London last week His Majesty's Government suddenly seemed to lose interest in the White Paper which it had taken the lead in negotiating. This lightning change occurred after Adolf Hitler sent to London by his special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week a six-page reply to the White Paper, the gist of which was that Germany rejected its terms in toto and that the Great Powers must mark time until the Realmleader should send them his proposals for what is to be done about Germany's rupture of treaties. Ambassador von Ribbentrop explained that...
Briton against Briton? With the Rhineland crisis thus tangled some European wiseacres believed a story that Ambassador von Ribbentrop had banged his fist on Mr. Anthony Eden's desk and uttered threats. The most painstaking and detached analysis of the situation was by seasoned Vladimir Poliakoff, the "Augur"' of the New York Times, who wrote: "Behind the smoke screen of the Franco-German tussle over the Rhineland... an internal political crisis is slowly maturing in London. No less is in the balance than the choice of a successor to Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party...
Shouted Joachim von Ribbentrop: 'If the honorable members had had more time to consider my statement this morning, the vote would have been different...
...Faces grew haggard and tempers short, but there was always French champagne at London's diplomatic meals and the pleasure of being accorded a private audience with His Majesty the King-a pleasure generously bestowed all round by Edward VIII last week, notably upon Hitler's von Ribbentrop...
...Berlin, Adolf Hitler closeted himself with Joachim von Ribbentrop and Foreign Minister von Neurath, stewed over the White Paper most of a day and a night. Next afternoon von Ribbentrop and his aides appeared at Templehof Airport with a locked briefcase, boarded a plane, landed at dusk in London, where a "No!" but not a flat refusal to negotiate was expected to come out of the briefcase. It was understood that the German counterproposals would be amplified "orally...