Word: stahmer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Tokyo the mysterious Heinrich Georg Stahmer ("Hitler's Masked Envoy") was reported on his way. It was Herr Stahmer who arranged the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Alliance (TIME, Oct. 7). A Berlin-Tokyo-Moscow Alliance, safeguarding Japan's back door, would be all that is needed to start Japan on the march in the south. A hint of what his country might be up to was given by none other than Ambassador Nomura. Said...
...Tokyo last month, also to the future. German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, feared and respected by the Japanese as he does not fear and respect them, drank with Foreign Minister Kensuke Matsuoka, Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli and Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop's special envoy Heinrich von Stahmer to the future of the three-way pact. But last week there was mostly a show of temper in Tokyo. The opening of the Burma Road...
...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 Minister who is the backbone...