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after the occupation of Bohemia and Moravia which gave them
guns, ammunition and supplies for 40 divisions which so far
largely existed only as cadres.  He said if he had been the
British or French Prime Minister, he would have rather comitted 
suicide than to accept this new conquest as an accomplished 
fact without further reaction.
 
 
              These decent people must get bewildered.    I heard
that Bonnet had arranged in January with Ribbentrop to sell
to Germany 1,200,000 t. of wheat.    During the last three
months the export of scrap, iron and nonferrous metals from
England to Germany was on a record scale.    There are now
such enormous stocks of grain in Germany that in spite of 
the fact that the drill halls of all schools are full of
grain, the big estates have not been able to sell their
harvest as the Government has no more room left for storing
it.
 
 
 The lead in international politics in the democratic
camp is now definitely with France.  I saw Margerie when
I went to get my French visa for my journey to Switzerland.
He shares my oessimism absolutely and said that there is
hardly any chance to avoid war.    He had the confidence now
that the French Generals were oreDaring themselves for a
long war of attrition-- lO years he said smiling-- and
that all hopes for a quick victory had gone except that they
all thought that the morale of the German Army was a terribly
low one.  That seems to be true unfortunately.  He tried