called a press conference to criticize Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's policy of western integration. He instead argued that West Germany should try to play off the Western powers against the Soviet Union to achieve German reunification. References Sources Dirksen, Herbert von, Moscow, Tokyo, London: Twenty Years of German Foreign Policy, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. Snyder, Louis, Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976. Schorske, Carl "Two German Ambassadors: Dirksen and Schulenburg", pages 477-511 from The Diplomats 1919–1939 edited by Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1953.K Mund, Gerald, Herbert von Dirksen (1882–1955). Ein deutscher Diplomat in Kaiserreich, Weimarer Republik und Drittem Reich. Eine Biografie. Berlin: dissertation.de – Verlag im Internet, 2003. Mund, Gerald: Ostasien im Spiegel der deutschen Diplomatie. Die privatdienstliche Korrespondenz des Diplomaten Herbert von Dirksen von 1933 bis 1938.'' Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2006 (= Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft, Beiheft 63). External links Dirksen in London on his way to present his credentials to King George IV, 3 May 1938 Herbert von Dirksen. Ostatni pan na zamku Grodziec Przed wojną był niemieckim dyplomatą w Moskwie, Tokio i Londynie. A po 1939 roku uprawiał buraki w Grodźcu na Dolnym Śląsku-Grodziec Castle at Dirksen's estate in Silesia, in Polish. 1882 births 1955 deaths Politicians from Berlin German National People's Party politicians Nazi Party politicians German untitled nobility Ambassadors of Germany to the Soviet Union Ambassadors of Germany to the United Kingdom Ambassadors of Germany to Japan German Army personnel of World War I Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914)