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(a fact of which I was unaware) but had not been
able to propose anything new.
 
 
5. I told Herr Hitler that we could not abandon 
Poland to her fate but I made entirely personal     
suggestion that M. Beck and Herr Von Ribbentrop should 
meet somewhere and discuss way out which alone might
save Europe from war. Herr Hitler's reply was that
he had invited M. Beck to come to talk matters over
last March only to have his invitation flatly refused. 
Only intervention by Herr Von Ribbentrop in discussion
was to confirm this and to say that M. Lipski who
had had to convey this message was obliged to put
it in other words to soften abruptness of it.
 
 
6. When I kept saying that His Majesty's 
Government could not in my opinion consider his offer
unless it meant at the same time a peaceful settlement 
with Poland, Herr Hitler said "If you think it useless
then do not send my offer at all", He admitted good 
intentions of M. Beck opposed to M. Lipski but said
that they had no control over what was happening in 
Poland. Only signs of excitement on Hitler's past                               
were when he referred to Polish persecutions. He 
mentioned that Ribbentrop on his return to Germany 
from Russia had had to fly from Konigsberg over the
sea to avoid being shot at by Poles who fired at every
German aeroplane that flew over normal routes across
Polish territory. He also sald that there had been
another case of castration.
 
 
7. Among various points mentioned by Hitler
were: That only winner of another European war would
 
 
be/