The Archive · 1939

Appeal to Patriotism Made

Herr Hitler asked M, Daladier how he would have acted if, after having honourably fought a war, a French province had been cut off and a town Uke Marseilles was forbidden to call self French, 'A nation with honour, the Fuehrer proceeded, could not give up almost 2,000,000 people. Danzig and the Corridor, he said, must come back. Macedonian conditions on the German eastern frontier must cease, Tt was impossible to tell Poland this in peace, but the question must be solved one way or another, 'He would regret it if fate' should decree a conflict between Germany and France, But there would be this, difference—"Germany would be fighting for the reparation of an injustice while France would be fighting for lis preservation.'

"The severest consequences, "Herr Hitler declared, would have' to be borne by Poland, for no matter what the outcome of a war would be, the Polish state would lose either way.

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