Word: ribbentrops
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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From a plane at Croydon stepped blond, monocled General Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Commissioner for Disarmament Questions, to talk with Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. General von Ribbentrop served as a lieutenant of Hussars during the War, speaks English and French perfectly, has spent four years in the U. S. and Canada and is married to the daughter of the German Champagne Maker Henkell. General von Ribbentrop had a three-power air limitation scheme to lay before the British Government. Nothing came...
Britain was not only preparing vastly to increase her air force, but just to mak it sporting she lately sold 80 Armstrong Siddeley airplane engines to Germany. Rumors spread quickly that General von Ribbentrop was also in London to try t arrange purchase of 150 more British engines for commercial purposes, of course, since Britain has a special law preventing the sale of war supplies to any foreign power except under special government license Very curt was the British Government last week to the French Embassy's suggestion that such powerful air plane engines as the Armstrong Siddeleys might...