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Do not let us repeat that tragedy.    Where were the real 
difficulties?   There was a difference of opinion as to the
extent of colonial adjustment. But England regarded Eastern
Europe as Germany's sphere, provided Germany would be the
protector of the independence of the small nations. It seemed
to him the question narrowed down to their detachment from
dependence on France and Russia but that would only be possible
if Germany guaranteed their independence. With this population
Goering most emphatically agreed and said in reply to Lothian
that in a Czecho-Slovakia friendly to Germany under these
circumstances, the Sudeten Deutschen Problem (the German
minority) would be readily solved without territorial changes.
 
 
General Goering was so interested in the discussion
that despite the warnings of his Adjutants he allowed himself
to be late for lunch with the Fuehrer.
 
 
He had returned from ltaly the previous day.