TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21167, 17 July 1940, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

Ribbentrop and the Fuehrer “Ribbentrop takes good care that as often as possible he is seen and photographed with Hitler, or he delegates that role to his wife or the youngest of his four children, so that it is known when the Fuehrer honours the thirty-room Ribbentrop home in Dahlem, or his impressive country estate. He has called his last boy Adolf, alter Germany’s ‘saviour,’ and he relies on the many ties, including their fervent jealousy of Britain, which bind the chief of the Government and the leader of his foreign policy, in order to avoid disfavour with all it implies in Nazi Germany should some of his daring plans miscarry. Whether one or both of them consider the pact concluded in Moscow on August 26. 1939. by now as a blunder, is an open ques-

tion; in their blind hatred of British statesmanship they certainly counted it then as Ribby's masterstroke. They were both incapable of feeling the shame which reddened the face of most of their old followers.” —Dr. Edgar Stern-Rubarth, In the Contemporary Review.