Anti-Comintern PactOctober 1935
In October 1935, the idea was mooted that an anti-Communist alliance might be able to tie in the Kuomintang regime, Japan and Germany. In particular, this idea appealed to Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Special Ambassador at Large and head of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop and the Japanese Military Attache in Berlin, General Oshima Hiroshi, who hoped that such an alliance might lead to Chinas subordination to Japan