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...court did not think he was so nice. As undersecretary in Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry, he was found guilty of preparing for aggressive war and crimes against humanity, sentenced to seven years in prison. In rapid succession, the judges pronounced sentence on 19 of the defendants, acquitted only two. Among the condemned: Hans Heinrich Lammers, 69, one-eyed chief of the Reich Chancellery and Hitler's man of all work, 20 years; Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler's economic adviser, ten years. When mousy little Otto Dietrich, Hitler's press chief, heard his sentence he turned...
...Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was, of course, the most spectacular calamity in Soviet diplomatic history. Since Molotov was not demoted for that it seemed scarcely believable that he would be held accountable for the recent failures of Soviet policy in Europe. It was more likely that the U.S.S.R. was merely reverting to its normal practice of having mouthpieces rather than policymakers handle Soviet dealings with the outside world. Litvinoff was a mouthpiece, and so was his predecessor Chicherin. Vishinsky, for all his forensic talents, belongs in that category...
Died. Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, 70, British coal tycoon and onetime Secretary of State for Air (1931-35) who said in 1938: "Close cooperation with Germany will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
...appeasement between the wars, sharpening the drama of the history with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, sharp cameos of those in the center of the stage, and pithy summings-up-generalizations like a bold sweeping together of muscular arms. In telling how Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop had been entertained at No. 10 Downing Street the day Austria was invaded by the Nazis, Churchill's finis to the episode is like an ax-stroke: "This was the last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hanged...
None of the dry texts recalled the past quite so vividly as the old photographs: Stalin and Ribbentrop clasping hands in the Kremlin, faces gleaming with private smiles...