GERMANY BENT ON GOING TO WAR
CASE AGAINST RIBBENTROP Heed. 9 p.m. London, Jan. 9. “Ribbentrop told Count Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister) early in 1939 that Germany was bent on war,’ 1 said Sir Maxwell Fyfe, opening the case against Ribbentrop at the Nuremberg trial. He quoted an excerpt from Ciano’s niary in which Ciano described a conversation. Ciano asked: “Well, Ribbentrop, what do you want?—The Polish Corridor or Danzig?’’ Ribbentrop replied: “Not any longer. We want war!” The prosecutor also produced testimony taken from Ribbentrop after his arrest, in which he stated the German Ambassador in London in 1939, Dr. Albert von Dirksen, played no part in the discussions between Britain and Germany. Ribbentrop said: “We wished to make an adjustment with England, hut not through Dirksen. It was done through Sir Neville Henderson (British Ambassador in Berlin).
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 5
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