INTERNATIONAL: Ambassador No. 1

A lady presented to the King curtsies. A gentleman presented to the King bows. Neither a lady nor a gentleman seizes the King's hand to shake it. Last week the greatest Court sensation since Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was impudent about King Edward VIII* was created by Adolf Hitler's personal and official envoy to the Court of St. James, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador.

New King George VI, handsomely bedight as Admiral of the Fleet, was standing in his splendid Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, receiving the diplomatic corps...

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