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Thundering in from Berlin to London went airplane loads of the Realmleader's most experienced diplomats and most trusted advisers on foreign affairs. Captains of these two distinct groups are the Brothers-in-Law Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff & Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop. The former is a career diplomat of masterly attainments. The latter is a one-time German champagne salesman and husband of a German champagne heiress...
Only Rumanian champagne is really inferior to German champagne, but in years gone by Salesman von Ribbentrop also carried a nice line of flower-scented German hocks much esteemed by British aristocrats. They tasted, bought, liked Joachim von Ribbentrop. After he married money many of these contacts ripened into friendships. Piquant was the fact last week that the violent treaty rupture committed by vegetarian & teetotaling Adolf Hitler should be defended and explained to the Council of the League of Nations gathered in beef-eating Britain by a onetime Rhine wine salesman whose duty was to champion & excuse remilitarization...
...Hours. It would have been hoped by pro-Germans in the Baldwin Cabinet that Joachim von Ribbentrop would have something new to offer or suggest. Instead his speech to the Council last week was a paraphrase of Orator Hitler's brawling Reichstag speech ten days before. Germany's excuse for remilitarizing the Rhineland remained her contention that France and Russia, by concluding a mutual assistance treaty, violated and thereby voided the Locarno Pact under which remilitarization of the Rhineland is barred as it is also barred under the Treaty of Versailles. Juridically the German case was so feeble...
...Diplomat von Ribbentrop sat down, he realized that the Council must almost certainly vote to condemn Germany, hastily popped up again to plead that it would be "unfair" to Germany to vote at once. Seemingly the brothers-in-law hoped that even a brief delay would bring intervention favorable to Germany from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. This was still possible, but French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, tall, big-boned and fair, again showed that he knows remarkably well how to handle Britons. The usual sort of Frenchman would almost certainly have demanded an immediate vote, and in so doing...
...good. Ambassador von Ribbentrop was greeted in London with maximum Foreign Office cordiality, but the skein of diplomacy at this point had only begun to unwind. Since the Treaty of Versailles bars Germany from having an effective navy of any sort. His Majesty's Government, while professing themselves willing to capitulate at 35%, asked other naval powers signatory to the Treaty of Versailles if they likewise would consent. Japan consented at once last week. Italy was noncommittal, but France resounded with fury. Once again, Paris assumed. His Majesty's Government were forcing the French Government to incur fresh...