The Archive · 1938

Hitler's Offers Awaited

"It takes two to make an agreement, as it takes two to make war, and: I am wa for a sign from those who for the German people that they share this desire, and that they are prepared to make their contribution to peace, which would help them as much as it would help us.

"To reproach us with carrying on with our re-armament after Munich is strangely to ignore facts, patent to all.

"We are ready at any time to discuss the limitation of armaments, on the basis that all contribute to their limitation, with due regard for their own safety.

"It would be a tragic blunder for the world to mistake our love of peace, and our faculty for compromise, for weakness."

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