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Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, is the hard-boiled diplomatist of a conquering power. But as a historian he is a regular Fritz Kuhn. Last week he let himself go on the Monroe Doctrine...
...paraphrased the answer of von Ribbentrop (whose exact words were not made public): Germany could not understand why the U. S. had sent its reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine to Germany. Germany had no American colonies and "has given no occasion for the assumption that it intends to acquire such possessions. . . ." (So also had spoken the Holy Alliance in the 1820s.) The Nazi Foreign Minister complained that the Monroe Doctrine would seem to confer on some European countries the right to have American territories and deny that right to others. (A Nazi discovery made 117 years after it had been...
Last winter he and Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop spent several pleasant evenings together at the cinema in Berlin. Going and coming, they would chat about the new friendly relations that had grown up between their two countries. But for the last month and a half Ambassador Shkvartsev has wished he did not know German so well, since he has had to listen to some Ribbentrop tirades that the Foreign Minister would be too cagey to put into notes...
...Fodor wrote a sensational story of which the two main points were: 1)Germany wants to put the Duke back on the throne as its puppet (which has been journalists' gossip for months); 2) Edward's little Duchess was once the good friend of Joachim von Ribbentrop (which has been common knowledge for years). All in all, the peace story was a good yarn, and in Rome and Berlin, as well as in the U. S., press & radio played it for all it was worth...
...French delegates entered the car, the German leaders rose, stiff with punctilio. Adolf Hitler gave the Nazi salute to each Frenchman in turn. Göring and Raeder raised their batons. Brauchitsch and Keitel gave the military salute, Hess and Ribbentrop the Nazi salute. The Frenchmen returned military salutes. Then Hitler sat down and nodded...