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...tournament (31 goals) is Templeton, which had a first-round bye. It includes three of the four players who beat England at Hurlingham in June-Winston Guest at Back, Stewart Iglehart at No. 3, Michael Phipps at No. 1. The only change-James Mills, onetime Yale captain, for Eric Pedley- should not greatly upset the combination...
...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...
Alcazar and Alhambra. In broiling summer Madrid were scarcely any Ambassadors or Ministers when the Revolution broke. Of the diplomatic underlings left to run things none has hung on more tenaciously in Madrid than U. S. Third Secretary Eric Wendelin, buttressed by his spunky wife. Last week even the brave diplomatic pups of the Great Powers were about to be whistled home. To 156 U. S. citizens still in Madrid, most of whom have commercial interests there, gallant Mr. Wendelin gave notice that at any moment he might be obliged to close the U. S. Embassy and that every...