"That telegram brought an me stantaneous reply from the Polish Government on August 31, in which the Polish Government said that they were prepared, on a reciprocal basis, to give a guarantee, in the event of negotiations taking place, that Polish troops would not violate the frontier the German Reich, providing a corresponding guarantee was given by the Germans, We never had a reply from the German Government {to the suggestion, which, if followed, might have saved the' catastrophe which took place this morning'
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