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- Prof. A.J.P. Taylor, Historian
Neville Chamberlain on his return from Munich was denounced for having negotiated a peaceful
settlement and his effigy was burnt - in Moscow. On the strength of a report, later found to be false,
Mr. Chamberlain guaranteed Poland's borders. The irony was that Hitler himself was prepared to
guarantee those very same borders but had his proposals rejected.
LORD LOTHIAN
Lord Lothian, in his last speech to Chatham House, remarked: "If the principle of self-determination
had been applied in Germany's favor, as it was applied against her, it would have meant the return of
the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, parts of Poland, the Polish Corridor and Danzig to the Reich."
"Personally I am sorry to say I am convinced that we cannot permanently prevent these Sudeten
Germans from coming into the Reich if they wish it and undoubtedly, the majority today do so."
- Neville Henderson to Lord Halifax
"I am gratified beyond measure to observe that since the 7th March there has come in foreign
countries a growing realization that Germany - speaking through the mouthpiece of her Leader - has a
sincere pragmatic desire for peace for the worried, suspicious European countries."
- Douglas Chandler, American journalist
"I cannot see what else Europe could expect. No mobilization except commonsense. We should take
Hitler at his word." - George Lounsbury, Ex-Chairman of the Labour Party
"The Locarno Pact is dead. It goes unhonoured and unsung into the tomb of political errors."
- Lord Rothermere's newspapers
"Hitler has given new hope to humanity. His points are inspired by a most generous spirit which, if
accepted, will surely blow away the dark fears." - Sir. Philip Gibbs
"As one of Hitler's greatest friends put it to me recently; 'You can start a preventive war; you can
bomb our cities and occupy our territory. But this time you will not break our spirit. There will be no
November, 1918 in the next war." - H. Powys Greenwood. Hitler's First Year
NATIONAL SOCIALIST PHILOSOPHY CONTRARY TO WAR AND CONQUEST
"The repeated declaration, for example, that it is against Nazi convictions to want to turn Poles,
Frenchmen or Czechs into Germans is based on the idea that the process must lead 'to the destruction
of the German elements, and that the 'victors would thus in reality become the vanquished'. When
Nazis assure me that they regard the conquest of non-German elements as likely to weaken them, I am
inclined to believe it, as racial purity is a fundamental article of their faith. It is this faith itself which
is leading them to adopt a more conciliatory attitude towards the adjoining races."
- H. Powys-Greenwood, Hitler's First Year
"However, she does not want to fight at all if it can be helped; and the racial idea itself leads her to be
thoroughly alive to the terrible threat of modern warfare to women and children, the bearers of the
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