Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Events moved with such rapidity during the last fortnight of my mission to Berlin that it proved impossible at the time to give any consecutive account of them. If I have the honor to do so now ... it is with the hope that such an account may be both of...
"Yet even those methods might have been endorsed in a world which had experienced 1914-18 and which sought peace as an end in itself, if Herr Hitler had been willing to accord to others the rights which he claimed for Germany. Revolutions are like avalanches, which once set in...
"People are apt, in my opinion, to exaggerate the malign influence of Herr von Ribbentrop, Dr. Goebbels, Herr Himmler and the rest. It was probably consistently sinister, not because of its suggestiveness (since Herr Hitler alone decided policy) . . . but because, if Herr Hitler appeared to hesitate, the extremists of the...
"He talked for the best part of two hours of the iniquities of the Poles and about Herr Hitler's and his own desire for friendship with England. ... I augured the worst from the fact that he was in a position at such a moment to give me so...
"There were, in fact, for Herr Hitler only two solutions: The use of force, or the achievement of his aims by the display of force. 'If you wish to obtain your objective by force, you must be strong; if you wish to obtain them by negotiation, you must be...