The Archive · 1940

Dramatic Moment

Tu a room crowded with newspaper men, radio. broadcasters and photo-Rraphers, Herr von Ribbentrop rose to read his declaration, followed by Count Eland, While' the Italian Foreign Minister, was reading his declaration, the Rumanian Foreign Minister, 'M, Michael -Manoilescu, sitting directly across the table from" him, suddenly pated and began perspiring. He shrimped in his chair slightly and asked for a glass water.

'Alter reading' their declarations the statesmen retired to ancther room for the actual signature—United Press,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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