The Archive · 1940

High Nazi Official Sources

Political Situation in England Seen as Comparable To Recent Cabinet Crisis in France

Berlin, May 9.

Immediate intensification of the European war as the first direct result of the present crisis in the British Government was predicted by high Nazi officials today.

The two days of debate in the British Parliament, in which the Chamberlain Government was bitterly criticized in both Houses, was watched with keen interest by the German Government. so oe core Bas resent British Govern-

garded in many ways comparable to the recent crisis in the former French Government headed by M. Edouard Daladier.

The French crisis, it was recalled, resulted in the- resignation of the Daladier Cabinet and the formation of a Cabinet under M. Paul Reynaud which was pledged to "intensify the

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