"Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken", also called "Zion", or the "City of God", is an 18th-century English hymn written by John Newton, who also wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace". Shape note composer Ale
John Newton
Joseph Haydn
Joachim von Ribbentrop
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Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was a German politician, diplomat, and war criminal who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945.
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
…singing the hymn to a tune used for other purposes it has sometimes elicited unusual reactions. In 1936, the German Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Joachim von Ribbentrop gave a Nazi salute in Durham Cathedral when the hymn was played and had to be restrained by the Marquess of Londonderry. During the Second World War…
Ribbentrop in 1938
Ribbentrop and the Japanese ambassador to Germany, Kintomo Mushakoji, sign the Anti-Comintern Pact on 25 November 1936.
Ribbentrop as SS-Gruppenführer, 1938
The French Premier Édouard Daladier (centre) with Ribbentrop at the Munich Summit, 1938