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...June 18, 1940, after the fall of Holland, Belgium and France, German Ambassador to Moscow Count von der Schulenburg reported: "Molotov . . . expressed the warmest congratulations of the Soviet government on the splendid success of the German armed forces...
Molotov took these drafts back to Moscow. The Kremlin apparently decided that the deal was not good enough. On Nov. 25 Molotov called in Count Friedrich Schulenburg, the German Ambassador, and said that Russia would not sign the Axis agreement unless...
...When George I arrived in England fresh from his native Hanover he brought along two mistresses: "spectrally thin" Madame Schulenburg, popularly known as The Maypole, and "monstrously fat" Madame Kielmansegge, popularly known as The Elephant. The first sight of them made London crowds hoot. Cried the Schulenburg: "Good pipple, what for you abuse us? We come for all your goots." A voice from the crowd: "Yes, and our chattels...
Russian promises, of course, are often superseded by subsequent arrangements, and in Moscow last week another German Ambassador, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, may have been discussing an arrangement about Turkey with Russia's new Premier. Access to the Mediterranean Sea is still a preoccupation with all Russian statesmen, and an offer of joint control of the Dardanelles might cause Premier Stalin to forget his promise to Turkey. In the meantime, in Ankara, Franz von Papen already had a jimmy in the doorjamb...
...From Moscow last week came a strong smell of diplomatic fermentation. On the eve of German Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden...