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...however, M.P. Harold Nicolson told me, along with a group of American students in England at the time, an even more Churchillian statement which the then rising man had made about his then Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Said Winston Churchill: "He would make a good mayor in a small town in a lean year...
...Next day Göring advised Joachim von Ribbentrop, then ambassador in London: "Tell Halifax and Chamberlain ... it is not true that Germany has given any ultimatum...
Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life...
...attack the U.S. There were also endless transcripts of bloodcurdling dialogue between Hitler and the defendants. Sample: Hitler (to Göring)-"[We must] kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of the Polish race or language. ... I have only one fear and that is that Chamberlain or another such dirty swine comes to me with a proposition or a change of mind. He will be thrown downstairs even if I must personally kick him in the belly. . . ." (In ecstasy, Göring jumps on table and dances a savage czardas...
Propaganda, Maybe. Evidently the Son of Heaven was bestirring himself on behalf of his unhappy people. MacArthur had not invited the visit; the Emperor had asked (through his Grand Chamberlain) to see MacArthur. Previously Hirohito had granted press interviews to Frank Kluckhohn of the New York Times and Hugh Baillie of United Press (see PRESS). He asked them some questions, wished them well, and answered their own questions in writing. If he was making propaganda, he did it gracefully. He said that Tojo had abused the imperial war rescript in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor; he hoped that Japan...