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The Fourhundredandtwentyfourth
When
Pantagruel MacFarlane opened his eyes he found himself staring at the
sky above, with something celestial eclipsing the sun, until his eyes
came back into focus on that object and found it
to be the head and
face of His Excellency, Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador to
the Court of St James and as his hearing also began to slowly return
to normal he could hear the petulant and officious voice of this
close personal friend of Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler, whom
many, both other Nazis and European diplomats, viewed as an
“unwholesome, half-comical figure” whose
appointment was considered to be an overslaugh, a reward from the
Fuhrer to one of his sycophantic drama llamas who, even now, seemed
to be at risk of straining his throat through his application of the
undiplomatic theory that the louder one is, the more likely one is to
be understood,
but
eventually he stopped shouting at MacFarlane and pushed a wine glass
into the prone Englishman's hands with an injunction to him to quaff
from it,
saying
it was a sweet Rhenish wine “which
was
not 'alf good,” and
Pan drank a couple of mouthfuls
he realised
that
Ribbentrop was standing back, grinning like a Cheshire Cat and Pan
eventually managed
to pull himself up
with the aid of a supporting table and several willing hands: and
once he was on his feet
again, he
was quick
to thank
the
German Ambassador;
which
was when he remembered something that he had no knowledge of yet:
there would be a Second World War, at the end of which Ribbentrop
would be tried, convicted and executed for his War Crimes, along with
a number of the Nazi leaders, but that Hitler
seemed to have either slipped out of his Final Bunker and made his
way
to South
America where there were several sympathetic regimes,
or died somehow and his body had
then been secretly
disposed
of!

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