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Germany, Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima, stopped off for two days of intensive diplomatic activity with the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, and with the German and Italian Ambassadors, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg and Augusto Rosso. That the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was bent on taking Russia into camp was plain. Before leaving for his post in Berlin, General Oshima beamed at correspondents and murmured: "Close Soviet-Japanese relations are . . . necessary to facilitate the construction of a new world order...
...while the treaty was being cooked up, paid a hurried call on Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps got busy. Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard her northern frontier while she conquers Greater East Asia. Comrades Stalin & Molotov said nothing. Well they know that, while Russia's interests lie with a victory of the London-Washington Axis, the Berlin-Tokyo Axis...
...Article III provides for consultation and exchange of information on matters of mutual interest. The inference was that Russia invoked the pact after the German invasion of Norway, which German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg spent four hours explaining to Foreign Commissar Molotov in Moscow (TIME, April...
...market for Russian military secrets, and of these Nazi Germany is closest to Moscow. Anti-Soviet rumor factories in Warsaw, Riga and Berlin quickly spread stories of abortive Red Army mutinies in a dozen districts, bloody street riots, even the assassination of Nazi Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg...
...keep Aryan housemaids in his Embassy only by special permission of the Realmleader, might lose that privilege and even be sent packing back to Moscow. Packing back to Berlin with the fervent curses of the Bolsheviks in his ears would then be sent Ambassador Graf Friedrich von der Schulenburg, an exasperatingly bland German. No matter what insults Soviet newsorgans hurl at Hitler week after week, Schulenburg is never instructed to protest, turns up smiling at Bolshevik receptions, refuses to let Communists get his goat...