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At the Foreign Office, Sir. Horace Wilson replaced Lord Vansittart. If this is Lord Gladwyn's idea of
'increased firmness and resolution' it isn't mine. I went to lunch later with Lloyd George and
Vansittart in the South of France. On the way back Vansittart remarked grimly: 'We have no one of
that caliber now'.
I find myself in agreement with Lord Gladwyn on only one point. While the treasure has been almost
consistently wrong over the past 50 years, the Foreign Office has had occasional flashes of sanity,
especially under Bevin, Home and Carrington. But the real miracle is that the British people have
been great enough to survive them both for so long." - Boothby, House of Lords, Daily Telegraph
"Indeed he went even further (Con O'Neill 'brilliant Whitehall mandarin'). He told his boss, the then
Foreign Secretary, Rab Butler, that Britain had always gone to war against cross-border organizations
like the Community. Our traditional foreign policy, after all, had been to keep the continental powers
divided." - Daily Mail editorial. 2nd January 1995
AMERICANS AGAINST THE WAR
Seldom in American history were the American people as united in their views as they were in 1939
about staying out of the war in Europe. "When hostilities began in September, 1939, the Gallup Poll
showed 94% of the American people against involvement in war. The figure rose to 96.5% in
December 1939. On June, 3rd, 1941, 83% of the American population was against entering the war."
- Gallup Poll
"The entry of America into the war would lead to chaos lasting several generations."
- Charles Lindburgh
FRANCE
"All that is best in France is against war, almost at any price."
- Eric Phipps, Britain's Ambassador to France
HITLER ON GERMAN-BRITISH RELATIONS
"I feel it to be a great misfortune that on August, 4, 1914, these two great Germanic nations (Germany
and Britain) which, through all the fluctuations of German history, have lived in peace for hundreds of
years, were plunged into war. I would be very happy if this unnatural state of things came to an
abrupt end and our two kindred peoples found their way back to the old relations of friendship."
- Adolf Hitler speaking to a British journalist, October 18 1933
THE BRITISH LEGION
"The English have fought against the Germans only once. We, the representatives of the British
Legion, are of the opinion that it was a mistake. This mistake must never occur again. I can well
speak in the name of the soldiers of the British Empire when I say that during the war we had an
extraordinary high esteem for the German soldiers. For me this esteem was confirmed when I came
with the army of occupation in Cologne and saw how the Germans know how to bear great
misfortune and hard times," - Major F.W.C Feather stone-Godley, British Legion
"He (Hitler) disclosed on 20th, January, 1943, that the Germans in 1940 offered to retire Hitler if by
doing so they could make peace with Britain."
- Joseph E. Davis, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1936/38
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