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...world that the issue ran deeper than the Polish controversy. Said Pravda: From "reliable Greek and Yugoslav sources" in Cairo, it had learned that a secret meeting took place recently in a seacoast city of the Pyrenees between two British officials and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop-"to find out the conditions of a separate peace with the Germans. It is understood that the meeting did not remain without results...
According to this account, German Ambassador Otto Abetz had traveled to Vichy, ready to lay down the law with a six-page letter in Joachim von Ribbentrop's most violent vein. The message accused Petain of "departing from the policy agreed on at Montoire," and made three main demands...
...Foreign Office was burned, Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' house gutted, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop's house gone. Gone was the British Embassy, gone Reich Marshal Hermann Gb'ring's proud, blocklike Air Ministry. Destroyed were the U.S. and French Embassies at the head of Unterden Linden; the famous boulevard itself was an avenue of rubble. In the Prinz Albrechtstrasse Gestapo headquarters were badly damaged. Professor Albert Speer's Ministry of Armaments and Munitions was gutted at one end, badly burned throughout...
...comparatively undamaged wing of the Foreign Office von Ribbentrop and his press chief, Dr. Paul Schmidt, held their conferences as usual. The Foreign Minister was grimy-faced; Schmidt had his arm in a sling. Both wore steel helmets pushed down over their heads. Glass crunched underfoot and the wind blew cold through the broken windows...
Goebbels runs the show but Ribbentrop's Foreign Office has the final say on what is broadcast-a source of endless friction...