NAVAL MESSAGE
NAVY DEPARTMENT
 
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WHAT YOU SAY OR ANY POSITION YOU TAKE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOT OF
CHIPS ON THE TABLE OTHER NEUTRALS ARE NOT POWERFUL ENOUGH TO BE
LISTENED TO VERY ATTENTIVELY X I HAVE HAD A RINGSIDE SEAT THIS
EUROPEAN SHOW FOR PAST 22 YEARS BEGINNING WITH MY EXPERIENCE AS A
DOUGHBOY IN THE AEF IN FRANCE CONTINUING ON THROUGH THE MANY
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CRISES OF THE FOLLOWING YEARS X WHOLE THING
HAS BEEN FIASCO OF BAD POLITICS AND DUMBELL ECONOMIC X POKER
PLAYING OF PAST 2 YEARS PARTICULARLY BETWEEN GERMANY ON ONE SIDE
AND ENGLAND FRANCE ON OTHER CULMINATING IN HANGING ANOTHER
WORLD WAR AROUND NECKS OF PEOPLE IN EUROPE PROVIDES AN IRONIC
FUTILE AND TRAGIC LAST CHAPTER CERTAINLY YOUR TAKING A QUIET HAND
IN THE SITUATION IS INFINITELY JUSTIFIED YOUR COURAGE TACT AND
EXPERIENCED UNDERSTANDING EUROPEAN PROBLEMS CERTAINLY COULD
PRODUCE A BETTER RESULT THAN THIS X AFTER SPENDING A FEW DAYS IN
ROME DISCUSSING SITUATION HERE WITH PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT ME
REASONABLY UP TO DATE ON ITALIAN FRENCH AND BRITISH VIEW POINTS I
MEAN NOT ONLY OFFICIAL VIEWPOINTS BUT ACTUAL FEELINGS OF THE PEOPLE
IN THESE COUNTRIES I PROCEEDED TO GERMANY WHERE I HAVE SPENT PAST 3
AND ONE