Word: joachim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who likes nothing about the English except their ceremony, sent word to the Berlin diplomatic corps to be on hand in their cutaways at the Chancellery next morning for a momentous announcement. The press also was told to come, in blue serge suits. In due course the invited showed up, marched through the great gilded wood portals that had just replaced the bronze ones (now being melted into munitions), and Herr Ribbentrop shot the works...
...extraordinarily prescient book called Rats in the Larder, written in 1938 -mostly before the Munich Agreement had made every European journalist a Cassandra-TIME'S Copenhagen Correspondent Joachim Joesten gave two reasons why Germany was certain to overrun Denmark early in the next war. Last week, which found Correspondent Joesten a fugitive in Sweden, his prediction and his reasons were upheld almost word for dire word. One of the reasons was strategic (see p. 19). The other was economic: Denmark is the larder of hungry Europe...
This crystalline killer has been named "gramicidin" because its victims all belong to the large class of microbes which take the gentian violet and iodine stain developed by Hans Christian Joachim Gram of Denmark. Gramicidin protects mice against huge doses of virulent pneumococci and all the other blue-staining germs so far tested. Since the tubercle bacillus belongs to this group, it seems almost certain to succumb to gramicidin...
...foreigners who have met him have failed to fall under the spell of Göring's gusty charm. In that he has served Germany well. Joachim von Ribbentrop (whom Göring hates) keeps relations smooth with Russia. But in Italy, where Germans are not too well liked, it is Göring who keeps things running with the Mussolinis. (He named his daughter after Edda Ciano.) Neutral diplomats prefer to talk to Göring, rather than to listen to Hitlerian tirades. And the fact that the British Foreign Office always found him willing to listen accounts...
Learned Insult. It all started about the time that Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop returned to Germany early last week after an apparently cool reception in Rome. Conclusion was reached that the Axis was bending. Fascist Journalist Giovanni Ansaldo even wrote an editorial for Leghorn's Telegrafo which contained a studied, learned insult...