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had made before that date." - Mr. Oliver Lyttleton, Minister of Production, May 6th 1944
"Those of us who had access to all the information available, who knew the full extent of our
unpreparedness, were fully aware that it would take at least two years from the outbreak of war before
we could organize, train and equip an army proportionate to our needs, and we all knew that during
these two years we were bound to be involved in a series of disasters."
Lt. Gen. A.E. Nye, Vice-Chief of Imperial General Staff, May,6th,1944
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"A war of such unprecedented devastating and crippling a character must mean that not only this
country but the whole world would be much poorer and disabled. We should live in a fool's paradise
if wishful thinking led us to believe that cruel war would bring in its train happier times and better
days." Sir. Kingsley Wood, February 2nd 1943
"Britain gave a foolish guarantee to Poland and then that nation by its intransigence plunged us into
war. Poland was not saved. Our guarantee meant nothing, but Britain was brought into bondage to
United States bankers and brokers after spending £227,000,000,000 in fighting that foolish war, to say
nothing of the terrible casualty lists." Daily Express, 16th August 1961
"The fact is that the only real offer of security which Poland received in 1938 and 1939 emanated
from Hitler. He offered to guarantee the boundaries laid down in the Versailles Treaty against every
other country. Even the Weimar Republic had not for a moment taken this into consideration.
Whatever one may think of Hitler's government or foreign policy, no doubt exists on this point; his
proposals to Poland in 1938/39 were reasonable and just and the most moderate of all which he made
during the six years of his efforts to revise the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means."
Professor Harry Elmer Barnes, American Historian
"The last thing Hitler wanted was to produce another great war. His people, and particularly his
generals, were profoundly fearful of any such risk - the experiences of World War One had scarred
their minds." Sir. Basil Liddell Hart, The History of the Second World War
"Of all the Germans, Believe it or not, Hitler is the most moderate as far as Danzig and the Corridor
are concerned." Sir, Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin, 16th August 1939
".... no factor in the life of Europe today offers so grave and certain a menace to peace than the
Corridor, which cuts Germany into two parts, and severs Danzig, one of the most German of cities,
from the fatherland. Can Europe afford to ignore this menace and allow matters to drift? To do so
would be tantamount to inviting and hastening catastrophe, for instead of improving, the conditions in
the Corridor after and because of 12 years of Polish occupation, are steadily growing worse.
Because it is now abundantly clear that all the needs of Polish trade, present and future, can be
satisfied without the corridor, and because good relations between Germany and Poland, which are so
essential to the settlement of peace in Europe, will be impossible so long as that political monstrosity
continues. The greater part of the territory should go back to the country to which it owes its
civilisation."
William Harbutt Dawson, English Authority on Germany, Germany Under the Treaty, 1933, p.169-70
For the sake of the Polish Corridor, "No British government ever will or ever can risk the bones of a
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