Word: joachim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested. As her salesman she picked 75-year-old Sven Anders Hedin, explorer, adventurer, surveyor, mapmaker, Orientalist -but no professional diplomat. Happening to be in Berlin to thank Adolf Hitler for a decoration from the German Government, he called on and had a two-hour talk with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Saturday. Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop headed for Rome...
...Karl Clodius arrived on the Italian scene just in time to scotch an Anglo-Italian cannons-and-airplane-engines-for-coal deal. Now, having maintained that a neutral that submits to British control is no longer a neutral and is fair game for Nazi submarines and bombers, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop realized that a ticklish situation was bound to arise if the Axis partner were compelled to knuckle down to British seapower. As though to lend emphasis to this attitude, a German warplane bombed and set fire to an Italian collier transporting British coal to Italy...
While Britain and Italy spat at each other last week over German coal shipments (see above), and Germany and Britain waited with different emotions for the end of the Russo-Finnish war (see p. 19), Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop suddenly announced a visit to Rome. According to one version, it was so sudden that not even Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano knew the Germans were coming until the day before they arrived. Herr Ribbentrop has a bad habit (for the Allies) of signing world-shaking treaties and pacts when he appears in foreign capitals. British diplomats quickly...
Hitler. But Berlin soon knew that he was there. Of his 60 hours, Sumner Welles spent nearly three talking with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (after which the press popped with inspired stories of Germany's demands before she would discuss peace: a free hand in the Balkans, recognition of her Czecho-Slovakian and Polish conquests). In the remaining 57, he found time to attend the opera (The Marriage of Figaro), be quietly feted by Alexander Kirk, U. S. charge d'affaires in Berlin, call on the Italian Ambassador. He also...