International: Herr Brickendrop

Joachim von Ribbentrop hoped almost to the end "that he might be saved by dis sension between the Allies. It was the last of the many mistakes made by the worst foreign minister of modern times.

Last week British agents found the one time wine salesman in the Hamburg apart ment of a 35 -year-old divorcee. Reporters first heard that he was lying abed, naked; later, that he had on pink and white pajamas. He asked his captors if they would see to the delivery of letters he had written to Montgomery, Eden and "Wincent" Churchill, professing that he had never wanted...

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