"Three weeks ayo, I made it known to the Polish Ambassador that it further measures were taken against Germans or if an attempt were made 40 destroy Danzig through customs measures, Germany could nob stand by without acting. There power with " feeling of honan which could tolerate similar _situa-Hons, I tried for the last time to accept the British Government's suggestion of mediation to enter Into direct conversations with Poland, 'I accepted the proposal for two days. T waited but the Polish Government did not send a plenipotentlary. Last night, we were informed that our proposals could not possibly be examined at pre= sent. If the German Reich and. its Yeaders could have tolerated that, then I would leave the political ween, My love for peace and my forbearance must not be taken for cowardlet "I have informed the British Government that the, suggestions for mediation have failed," he continued,
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