Word: ribbentrops
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...joint aggression pact that brought together two people who intended from the very beginning to deceive each other. I am perfectly willing to send Herr Khrushchev a map showing the new frontier [dividing Poland] between Germany and the Soviet Union which bears the signatures of Stalin and Ribbentrop...
...drive toward Paris long enough to meet Von Wiegand near Brussels-a reunion that Von Wiegand recorded in his usual breathless style: "Hitler dashed up in a six-wheeled open car, sitting beside the chauffeur. There was a clicking of heels and an outstretching of arms in salute. Von Ribbentrop greeting him at the entrance. It is two years since my last talk with Hitler...
...British, hitherto the politest, who delivered the sharpest retort to the insulting distortions of history implicit in Khrushchev's Berlin note. With tongue in cheek, the British wondered why, among other historical documents, the Russians did not mention the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which "made the outbreak of war inevitable," called Munich a lesson in appeasement to heed in Berlin now, and cuttingly recalled that because the Soviet Union had failed to honor the freedom of religion, press, speech and voting promised in the 1945 Potsdam agreement, "some 2,000,000 Germans have left East Germany rather than endure...
...foreign trade. Mikoyan himself recalled that Germany once sent 40% of its exports to Russia, and some of his hearers were reminded that the shrewd little Armenian had been around before: it was he who negotiated a trade agreement with Nazi Germany shortly before the cynical Molotov-Ribbentrop 1939 treaty that was the prelude to World...
...their best to frighten Windsor with cooked-up tales of Churchillian vengeance directed against him through Britain's intelligence service. An ominous warning was slipped into a bouquet of flowers presented to the Duchess. "A firing of shots . . . through the bedroom window," wrote the German minister to Ribbentrop, "scheduled for the night of July 30, was omitted, since the psychological effect on the Duchess would only have been to increase her desire to depart, [but] through steady undermining of their sense of security, the Duke and Duchess were strongly influenced...