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This telegram must be               LONDON
closely paraphrased be-
fore being communicated             Dated August 25, 1939   
to anyone.   (D)
                               Rec'd 8:15 p.m.
 
Secretary of State 
 
     Washington
 
     
     RUSH
 
     1262, August 25, midnight.
 
          I have just been at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minis-
 
ter Halifax, Cadogan, and Horace Wilson. They have dis-
 
cussed with me the Henderson interview.
 
     Hitler seemed calm and earnest. He pointed out that
 
he always wanted a deal with Great Britain but he was not 
 
deterred by Great Britain's actions of yesterday. He was 
 
indignant with the Poles for their persecutions of his 
 
people, firing on airplanes, et cetera, and if they said 
 
they did not, it showed they had no control over their 
 
subordinates. He was going to have his rights in Poland 
 
even if it meant a great war, from which England would 
 
suffer much more than Germany. He now had Russia to back 
 
him up with supplies and therefore he could go on.
 
        If,however, he could get straightened out in this 
 
Polish business he would make a deal with England that
 
 
would guarantanee the British Empire forever. He would 
 
limit armaments and then Germany and England would proceed
 
to economic satisfaction. Henderson kept pointing out that 
 
                                    England