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effective these brakes will be again I am unable to guess even.
 
 
         The greatest impression made upon the Generals of the German
Army has been the Anglo-Turkish defensive alliance. This is
mostly for sentimental reasons in the same way as the Anglo-
Russian negotiations. There is no doubt that since six weeks
efforts were being made on the part of the German General Staff
to come to better terms with Stalin. I was told that these 
tentative negotiations are handled by General Suroky. This might
appear strange, but everything is strange at the moment in the
internal life of Czechoslovakia. There is an influential group 
of people who wish to come to even closer relations with the
Nazis. The Anglo-Polish Alliance so far has not made a very
great Impression upon neither the Nazis nor the General Staff.
Everything in the British policy comes too late to prevent the
war, or at least to check Hitler in taking further risks. I
cannot believe that Hitler really intends to make a bold military
stroke against Poland. The Danzig question will be cleverly approached
by him from within the city of Danzig in a way that in some
weeks time Danzig from a military and political point of view
will be a Nazi bulwark without any open hostility of without
denouncing the existing Treaty. If this goal is reached the
defence of the Corridor on the part of the Poles will be no longer
possible. It is conceivable that they might prefer to evacuate
the Corridor at a given moment, and try to make a stand from the
old line of Russian defence 40 miles west of Warsaw. I do not
believe that Hitler will follow there. He will sit still after
 
 
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