Word: ribbentrop
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...with the Wehrmacht at the English Channel, and beleaguered Britain waiting seemingly helpless and hopeless on the other side, Germany's Minister to Portugal sent an encouraging telegram to his boss in Berlin, Foreign Minister and ex-champagne salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Duke of Windsor, Britain's ex-King Edward VIII, it said, was ready and eager to return home with his American wife to reclaim the throne of Britain for both of them. To bring this about, the message went on, there were two possibilities: either England would urge him to come back, which Windsor considered...
...thought must still rankle. Forced to flee from his French home, unwelcome in England, probably humiliated by the offer of the governorship of one of his younger brother's most insignificant West Indies colonies, the Duke of Windsor seemed a natural for the German cause. Hitler's Ribbentrop spared no effort to snare him. Sympathetic Spaniards and Portuguese were enlisted in the effort, and Walter Schellenberg, head of the Gestapo's counter-espionage organization, was sent to Lisbon at the head of an 18-man task force to direct the operation. The mission...
...Brentano then addressed himself to the Soviet Foreign Minister: "Mr. Molotov may be sure of this: though he once managed to sign a treaty with Messrs. Stalin and Ribbentrop, and thus to seal an alliance between two totalitarian systems, he will not be able to bring about such a treaty again with the federal republic of today or with the reunited Germany of tomorrow...
...also, he said, had had a bad time under the Nazis. He had even been thrown in jail, where he had had time to worry not only about what the Germans were doing, but also about those foreign nations who were supporting Hitler: a sharp reference to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact...
...Communist party was not enough. For as soon as the intellectual ties that bound many college professors and students to communism in the thirties were broken, most of them left the party. Despite their previous conception of themselves as the main bulwark against fascism, suddenly, after the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-agression pact of 1939, they found themselves incongruously in step with Hitler...