Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheerful Ambassador-at-Large Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, onetime salesman of "German Champagne," blandly appeared in London and showed around the smart salons of Mayfair what he said was a list of British subjects any one of whom Adolf Hitler would prefer to the present British Ambassador at Berlin, Sir Eric Phipps. Herr von Ribbentrop did not deny that he himself was the Realm-leader's choice to succeed as German Ambassador to the Court of St. James the distinguished, old-school Dr. Leopold von Hoesch who died in April...
...Whitehall this was considered double-barreled insolence on the part of Herr von Ribbentrop, for Sir Eric Phipps is the brother-in-law of the Permanent Undersecretary of the British Foreign Office, brilliant Sir Robert ("Van") Vansittart. Recently Sir Robert went on vacation to Berlin (TIME, Aug. 10). Few days later he conferred with Adolf Hitler. Last week Joachim von Ribbentrop was appointed German Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...long as Sir Eric Phipps remains British Ambassador in Berlin, Europe's diplomatic fraternity was inclined to think that von Ribbentrop will have lost rather than gained by his appointment to London. He has been the closest adviser on foreign affairs of Herr Hitler, and his Berlin office, nicknamed Das Euro Ribbentrop, overshadows the German Foreign Office headed by old-school Baron Constantin von Neurath at whom proletarian Nazis sneer...
...With Sir Robert Vansittart in Berlin and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden vacationing in the country last week, the British Foreign Office happily came out with exactly the sort of announcement its civil servants love to make. Apropos of nothing they announced that His Majesty's Government have re-examined and consider fully binding upon themselves, "the Treaties of Alliance with Portugal, dating back...
...William Aberhart in the next province, he has lost his self-assumed rank of "Canada's Greatest Money Reformer." Last winter he invited every celebrity he could think of to Vancouver's two-month celebration, hoped for President Roosevelt. One invitation reached London's Lord Mayor Sir Percy Vincent, a retired millinery manufacturer who, at 68, has little to do. To Vancouver's astonishment, London's 613th Lord Mayor accepted the invitation, promised to bring with him the Lord Mayor's whole retinue, lord sheriff, macebearer, sword-bearer and city marshal. Last week Sir...