The Archive · 1939

Wrong Time for War

"AN those considerations confirm in my mind the belief that he will not be responsible for war if he possibly can help it. If Hitler's desire was to have another war for no other reason than for world domination by Germany, he would indubitably have chosen the moment when we were unprepared, and when he had spent thousands of millions'of pounds on providing Germany with every mi {ary device produced by modern science. Until recently we had made little progress in our rearmament, Torn with political dissent, Frence, we have reason to believe was by no means prepared.

Hitler certainly would have chosen

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