Berlin, May 4.
"At a time when deeds are everything, I do not intend to come before you more than is absolutely necessary: I turned to you for the first time at the outbreak of the war when, thanks to the French-British conspiracy against peace, every attempt at a settlement with Poland had failed; all my attempt to reach, with Britain particularly, permanently friendly ce-operation were frustrated by the wish and will of a sw all clique which turned down every German proposal for an understanding. The moving spirit of this plan, as fanatical as it was diabolical, to get war at any-price, was even at that time Churchill and his assistants, the men who now form his government The strongest, open and concealed, support was accorded these efforts by the so-called great democracies on both sides of the ocean.
Thus declared Hitler before a specially-convened meeting of the
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