Word: von
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mounted to its climax. The pressure on the Poles to give way, on Great Britain and France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank attack was launched. The button that Fuhrer Hitler had to press was the announcement that Joachim von Ribbentrop was flying to Moscow to sign a non-aggression pact with Russia. At midnight, irresistible hour to lovers of mystery, the Fuhrer pressed the button...
...wondrous flight of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow to sign a Pact had jogged the world (TIME, Aug. 28), the Pact's actual wording really shook it. Nub of the Pact was contained in Articles...
...then he had a talk with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop about "fateful problems," from which he came away "very depressed." By the time he had reached Oslo, he was in a towering funk. "My impressions of Europe are terrifying. . . . Europe is drifting toward war. . . . America will go to war ... if the British Fleet is defeated. . . . I believe we can expect war at any moment. . . . August...
...attempts to change the status of Danzig." Member of one of the few great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that his grim warning surprised reporters. Said Count Potocki: "Herr von Ribbentrop created Europe's crisis by persuading Fuhrer Hitler that Britain would not fight, ignoring Britain's realization since Munich that surrender would not mean peace...
...Foreign Minister and big landowner, who signed Hungary into the Anti-Comintern Pact. When Führer Hitler and Count Ciano met in the mountains of Bavaria last fortnight, Count Csaky was near by, remaining at the foot of the mountain but conferring daily with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. When Count Ciano flew back to Rome, Count Csaky soon followed. When Count Ciano was too busy to see the U. S., British or French Ambassadors, he still had time to spend an hour and ten minutes with Count Csaky. When II Duce was making mysteries by his silence...