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General Goering interposed he would not regard refraining
from conscription in England as a compliment to the naval treaty - 
not at all. They, the Germans, did not mind a large army in 
Britain.
 
 
Lord Lothian continued:  The imponderabilia are important as
Bismarchk had stated. It was not by upsetting the integrity of
other nations that peace or lasting stability would be reached.
Some colonial adjustment might be possible - in the West African
area - but it would be fair to say that a large scale change would
not be possible.  The difficulties created by public opinion
would be too great.
 
 
General Goering said that Lord Lothian's principle of 
nationality should apply to Austria, What would Lothian say 
if the Austrian people elected to come, in some way, into the 
German Empire, against the protests alone of the Austrian
Government.     Here no question of war would arise, It was a
case of the people's will.
 
 
In passing Goering stated that no Austrian would ever take 
up arms against Germany - if war broke out the Austrians would 
some over with flying colours to the German side.
 
 
With Poland, and Csecho-Slovakia the position was not so
clear. French influence was active. Both countries suffered
from a bad conscience because each contained millions of German
citizens, and for that reason Germany was regarded as a menace,
 
 
Czecho-Slovakia was so much under Russian influence (in
Russischen Fahrwasser) that a change in the sense suggested by