INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL GOERING.    May 4th 1937.
 
 
In receving the two visitors, General Goering said that as
Mr. Conwell-Evans spoke German there was no need of an interpreter, 
and a discussion of 2 1/4 hours took place with no one else present.
 
 
 
General Goering wore a white uniform, and looked genial
with has clear blue eyes and clear complexion.   He listened 
with the greatest attention and seriousness and his replies were 
slowly delivered.
He said that Lord Lothian was one of the very very few
statesmen in England who showed any sympathy for Germany's
troubles. His visit to Berlin at a time when the sky was overcast
with dark clouds gave him (General Goering) a glimmer of
hope. Goering said that he was for co-operation with England
on two grounds
 
(1) because he was a loyal servant of the Fuhrer
 
(2) because he was himself convinced that the harmonious
development of the world depended on the co-operation of these
two great nations. He hoped that Germany would never seek
security or never be compelled to seek other ways than the Anglo-
German road.
 
 
Lothian said that he entirely agreed about the importance
of Anglo-German co-operation for peace. He thought that
there were two main questions facing England and Germany, Eastern
Europe and the colonial and economic question.
 
 
The difficulty regarding Eastern Europe arose from the
fact that although England in the Great War fought for her own
security primarily, opinion was profoundly impressed by the
declarations of the leaders, and particularly of President Wilson,
about freedom for all nations, and from the war arose the new
nations Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, Poland, Yugoslavia; in the
British Empire Ireland and Egypt had self-government and progress
in the same direction was taking place in India and elsewhere.