FORMER LONDON AMBASSADOR
BARON VON NEURATH [By Air Mail—f rom Our Own Correspondent] LONDON, 26th June. Baron von Neurath, who has the somewhat unusual Teutonic name of Constantin, is sixty-four years of age, and started his diplomatic career as a private secretary to the King of Wurttemberg. He has held a number of diplomatic appointments since those early days, and for two years, 1930-32, was Germany’s Ambassador at the Court of St. James’s. In that capacity he made quite a favourable and friendly impression, and has a good many admirers here. He left London to take over his present portfolio as German Foreign Minister, an office in which he was confirmed by Hitler after the Nazi revolution, towards which the Baron had been conJ-tently favourable. He became famous both at the Geneva meetings of the League Assembly and at the Disarmament Conference for his outspoken not to say provocative attitude on Germany’s claims to equality all round. It was he who announced Berlin’s withdrawal from the League. Mr Anthony Eden, when | they do meet, will find him a bracing realist, and quite unemotional in his I diplomatic outlook.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 19 July 1937, Page 6
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