Word: ribbentrops
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...surprised to see the flags the children carried, but newspaper correspondents were. For a fortnight they had been led to expect that the big Axis doings which were obviously under way had to do with Don Ramón's country. While German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop conferred with Count Ciano and Benito Mussolini in Rome they had filed Foreign-Office-inspired dispatches about Axis designs on Gibraltar, on the Near East, on Africa-but hardly a line about the Far East. This morning they learned that they had been thoroughly hoaxed. Lean, hollow-eyed...
...diplomatic corps except slim, suave Saburo Kurusu, who represents Japan in Berlin and has a Nazi-phobe American wife. Just outside a door that leads to the offices of Adolf Hitler a long table had been placed. Ambassador Kurusu sat there, as did Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop. Before them, on the table, lay a thin document in triplicate...
...precisely 1:15 o'clock in the afternoon Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop scrawled his signature at the bottom of the first copy of the document, addressed himself to duplicate and triplicate. Count Ciano followed him and Ambassador Kurusu signed last. The signing took two minutes. As Ambassador Kurusu laid down his pen the door behind him opened. With a nervous, catlike walk Adolf Hitler came in. He shook hands with the Italian and Japanese emissaries, sat down next to Ciano. Joachim von Ribbentrop stood up and through a battery of microphones proceeded to tell the world that Japan...
...Gamble. Ever since the war began Germany has tried to bring in Japan on her side. Lately U. S. aid to Great Britain has been an increasing menace to Germany. A month ago Germany began putting heavy pressure on Japan. One of Joachim von Ribbentrop's smart, tough young men, Heinrich von Stahmer, went to Moscow, told Joseph Stalin's man Molotov what was afoot, and continued on to Tokyo. There he was known as ''Germany's masked special envoy." Nearly every day he went to see Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's ambitious, daring Foreign...
...from entering a Nazi rally. "Better not go in there, buddy," said the cop. "They're all anti-Semites." There was the only normal Nazi, Rudolf Hess, called "Fraulein" because he is hysterical Hitler's nursemaid and governess. There was the ex-wine salesman, Joachim von Ribbentrop, who used to be much in demand for amateur theatricals in the homes of rich and cultured Jews, because he played effete Englishmen in Oscar Wilde plays. There was Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, about whom the Munich police in 1923 made a mistake his secret police would never make. They thought...