This diplomatic success did much to increase Ribbentrop's prestige with Hitler, who called the day the A. G. N. A.

Ribbentrop's habit of summoning tailors from the best British firms, making them wait for hours and then sending them away without seeing him with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process, did immense damage to his reputation in British high society.

It was Ribbentrop's fear that if German-Polish talks did take place, there was the danger that the Poles might back down and agree to the German demands as the Czechoslovaks had done in 1938 under Anglo-French pressure, and thereby deprive the Germans of their excuse for aggression.

During the summer of 1939, Ribbentrop sabotaged all efforts at a peaceful solution to the Danzig dispute, leading the American historian Gerhard Weinberg to comment that " perhaps Chamberlain's haggard appearance did him more credit than Ribbentrop's beaming smile " as the countdown to a war that would kill millions inexorably gathered pace.

The Greek historian Aristotle Kaillis wrote that it was Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler together with his insistence that the Western powers would in the end not go to war for Poland that was the most important reason why Hitler did not cancel Fall Weiß all together instead of postponing " X-day " for six days.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

Weizsäcker responded " Hitler never noticed Ribbentrop's babbling because Hitler always did all the talking.

Of course, Czechoslovakia did not know about this change in Ribbentrop's attitude, and the Slovak leaders ' confidence in a favorable German decision was instrumental in bringing them to accept arbitration.

Ryti and Mannerheim did not know the internal balance between OKW and Wilhelmstraße and the stakes were too high to risk Ribbentrop's pressuring the Wehrmacht to withdraw its support from Finland.

On 22 January 1933, Meissner and Hindenburg's son met Hitler, Göring, and Frick at Ribbentrop's home in Berlin's exclusive Dahlem district.

Ribbentrop's assistance in arranging the meeting and lending his home for the purpose endeared him to Hitler.

Another factor that aided Ribbentrop's rise was Hitler's distrust of, and disdain for, Germany's professional diplomats.

The appointment arose in large part because of doubts created in foreign capitals over just what precisely Ribbentrop's diplomatic status was.

Ribbentrop's increasing foreign-policy profile rubbed many professional diplomats, especially Neurath, the wrong way.

He could not take seriously anyone whose written German, to say nothing of his English and French, was as full of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes as Ribbentrop's.

Once, Neurath instructed a Ribbentrop aide not to correct any of Ribbentrop's spelling mistakes.

Because the Foreign Office's diplomats were not so sunny in their appraisal of the prospects for an alliance, Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler increased.

Ribbentrop's personality, with his disdain for diplomatic niceties, meshed with what Hitler felt should be the relentless dynamism of a revolutionary regime.

But to everyone's surprise, the next day the British accepted Ribbentrop's demands and the A. G. N. A.

And he concluded that Ribbentrop's talents better suited him to serving as Ambassador than as State Secretary.

Luther proved to be a master intriguer and became Ribbentrop's favourite hatchet man.

Ribbentrop's civil-war statements were greeted with incredulity by those British people who heard them.

In addition, the fact that Ribbentrop chose to spend as little time as possible in London in order to stay close to Hitler irritated the British Foreign Office immensely, as Ribbentrop's frequent absences prevented the handling of many routine diplomatic matters.

In February 1937, Ribbentrop committed a notable social gaffe by unexpectedly greeting King George VI with a stiff-armed Nazi salute: the gesture nearly knocked over the King, who was walking forward to shake Ribbentrop's hand.

The crisis was resolved when Neurath pointed out to Hitler that under Ribbentrop's rules, if the Soviet Ambassador were to give the communist clenched-fist salute, then Hitler would be obliged to return it.

Most of Ribbentrop's time was spent either demanding that Britain sign the Anti-Comintern Pact or that London return the former German colonies in Africa.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

Yet she did not hesitate and only turned slightly, her neck tall as she looked in his direction, and continued on her way toward the end of the camp.

Yet even then we did nothing much but talk, and maybe neck a little.

" At this time, one of those disciples happened to be the current English ambassador, though his initiation into Jahangir's inner circle of disciples was devoid of religious significance for Roe, as he did not understand the full extent of what he was doing: Jahangir hung " a picture of him self set in gold hanging at a wire gold chain ” round Roe's neck.

The vast majority of loan words did not appear in documents until the early 12th century ; these included many modern words which used sk-sounds, such as skirt, sky, and skin ; other words appearing in written sources at this time included again, awkward, birth, cake, dregs, fog, freckles, gasp, law, moss, neck, ransack, root, scowl, sister, seat, sly, smile, want, weak and window from Old Norse meaning " wind-eye ".

It did lack the ability to pull its head into its shell ( and it had a long neck ), and had a long, spiked tail ending in a club, a body form similar to that of ankylosaurs, resulting from convergent evolution.

Jennings did further customizing work on the guitar, by filing down the frets to lower the strings on the neck to obtain the slapping sound.

Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.

" The tradition is written of in the Bible, as when Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and when Moses went to meet his father-in-law, he " did obeisance, and kissed him ; and they asked each other of their welfare ; and they came into the tent " ( Exodus 18: 7 ); and when Jacob had wrestled with the Lord he met Esau, ran towards him, fell on his neck and kissed him.

Some accounts of Louis's beheading indicate that the blade did not sever his neck entirely the first time.

The length for the rope used for the execution was calculated in such a way that Keitel did not die quickly from a broken neck, but " agonizingly from slow strangulation, struggling for 24 minutes at the end of the rope before expiring.

He had already become engaged to Gill's middle daughter, Petra, whose characteristic long neck and high forehead continued as standard female features in Jones's artwork for the rest of his career, even though his engagement to her did not last more than a couple of years.

To reach the beach they had to wade through water sometimes neck deep, and they still had 200 yards ( 180 m ) or more to go when they did reach shore.

However, Loki did not allow him to take his head as doing so would have damaged his neck which was not included in the bet.

The rules prevented permanent mutilation: They did not permit punches to the temples, neck or below the belt.

Stigand did not travel to Rome to receive a pallium, the band worn around a neck that is the symbol of an archbishop's authority, from the pope.

Because he was shot in the neck above the vest, the vest did not protect him.

Although it was the second modern US body armor that was able to stop rifle caliber rounds and still be light enough to be worn by infantry soldiers in the field, it still had its flaws: " it was still heavier than the concurrently issued PASGT ( Personal Armor System for Ground Troops ) anti-fragmentation armor worn by regular infantry and ... did not have the same degree of ballistic protection around the neck and shoulders.

In the three races that he did not win, he ran second on two occasions, beaten by a short head and a neck, and in the 1931 Melbourne Cup he finished eighth when carrying 10 st 10 lb ( 68 kg ).

With Drummond in charge, they cut a ditch through the neck of land that divided one side of the harbour in Caledonia Bay from the ocean, and constructed Fort St Andrew, equipped with 50 cannon, on the peninsula behind the canal ; the fort did not have a source of fresh water.

However, the bullet went right through his chin and neck and did not kill him.

This original anthem made no reference to the name of Argentina or an independentist will, and talked instead about Spain being conquered by France in the Peninsular War, the absolutist restauration began by the Council of Regency, and the need to keep the republican freedoms achieved so far in the Americas: " Spain was victim / of the plotting Gaul / because to the tyrants / she bent her neck / If there treachery / has doomed a thousands cities / let sacred freedom and union reign here / Let the father to the sons / be able to say / enjoy rights / that I did not enjoy ".

Mandrake has concealed that " Shark " is suffering from a previous injury, a broken neck that did not heal properly.

" With her new name, she sat on a stool with a sign around her neck saying " Girl Singer ," did breathing exercises, and soon performed as a reader of poems and plays, while Lester made occasional jokes about her " hidden talents.