foreign policy, there were difficulties, The relations between 
the British Foreign Office and the Quai d'Orsai well well-known. 
Before we made such a statement one should be assured that everything 
which we said today to the Foreign Offioe would be known to the 
Quai d'Orsai within twenty-four hours.
 
 
I can, however, set forth general aims.
 
 
Here is a sina qua non.
 
(l) 6 million Austrians are an organic part (Bestand Tell) of 
the German nation.
 
Austria after the war in the last paragraph of its constitution 
laid does that it was a part of the German Empire (Bestand Teil des 
Deutschen Reiches). Hostile powers prevented the self-determination 
of this people, and now a papal government holds it down. 
Austria is not the concern of other states.
 
(2) There are 4 million Germansin Czecho-Slovakia. General 
Goering asked what would England say if 4 million Englishmen
were oppressed by Ireland.    What solution would England offer?
 
The Germans were neither better nor worse than the English in 
this respect.
 
(3) There was Danzig, which was German.
 
 
Then General Goering proceeded, the colonial problem 
could be settled In a friendly way; one should also give Germany 
the possibility of developing trade and influence in Eastern 
Europe, economic agreement might recognise special spheres, and 
also co-operation in other spheres.    England should give Germany 
absolute recognition of equality in regard to respect for 
her vital interests as Germany does in the case of England.
 
 
Lord Lothian in reply stated that England recognised that 
Germany was not pursuing the Kaiser's policy- the naval agreement 
with England was a proof of this, and was highly appreciated in 
England. As a national compliment England had not lntroduced 
conscription.