THE AMBASSADOR.
 
 
AUGUST 13, 1936.
 
 
No DD-PK yestersay and today.
 
 
OLYMPIC GAMES still front page, with America and Germany 19 Gold Medals
each. Germany leads, however, in Silver and Bronze medals. American
women won all three medals in diving so VOELKISCHER BEOBACHTER devoted
only half the text of the front page to Olympics, featuring Women's
Gymnastic where Gold Medal went to Germany. The other half of the front
page devoted to foreign politics, headline:
 
 
 "FREE ENTRY FOR TRAVEL TO AUSTRIA - AUSTRO-GERMAN NEGOTIATIONS
CONCLUDED." Other measures drafted are for increasing mutual exchange
of commodities, to be signed and put into effect after being approved
by both Governments.
Other foreign news has to do mostly with SPAIN either directly or
indirectly and is in the well-known anti-Soviet, anti-Front-Populair
spirit. French Chief of Staff Gamelin visits Warsaw and VB tries
to minimize political importance of the event, saying that while
his welcome in Poland was hearty it was meant more for "Latin Culture" 
than for Front Populair.
 
 
RIBBENTROP - in absence of DD-PK comment, German press restricts itself
to reproducing biographic data and English and French comment on his
appointment to London. The English comment reproduced here is all
favorable. The French comment reproduced amounts to saying that the
appointment of Ribbentrop indicates importance attached by Germany to
Anglo-German relations and preparationd for forthcoming Locarno
Conference.
 
 
SHURMANN - according to PRESSEBERICHT, our former Ambassador, in an 
interview with N.S.KORRESPONDENZ, said "Only a Germany with equal 
rights, and sovereign, can arrive at agreement with the two great
European states which fought and struggled in particularly close
union against the Reich".
 
 
SCHWARZE CORPS requests foreign Olympia guests in Germany to open
wide their eyes and to see not only official personages but the
man on the street and polemizes against an article in the
BASLER NATIONALZEITUNG which stated that in Germany not joy stood in
the center of life but fear- fear of spies, agents provocateurs, fear
of loss of job, fear of imprisonment, etc. (How does the average
German, who may be suffering from at least one of these anxieties, feel
when he reads his SCHWARZE KORPS- or does he?)
 
 
 
HCF