Even the most absolute dictator is susceptible to his surroundings, but Herr Hitler's decisions, calculations and opportunisms were his own, says Sir Nevile Henderson, who adds that Marshal Goering once told him: "It is the Fuehrer alone who decides.
When a decision has to be taken, none of us count more than the stones on which we are standing."
There is surprising reason to believe, says the Ambassador, that Herr Hitler himself was disagreeably and literally astonished at the reaction provoked in Britain and the world generally by the occupation of Prague and -the breach of faith with Mr. Neville Chamberlain.
Sir Nevile Henderson harks back to the "major disaster," when, after Marshal Werner von Blomberg's Senate Repeal of
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