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main points are agreed to beforehand." This I took to mean a previous
promise to Italy and Germany of colonies and condemnation of Russia. I
asked whether the Fuehrer intended to send the Russian Ambassador home.
He said no, but added: "The Russian position here is getting to be so
embarrassing that I think he will go home" - no successor to be
appointed. This last he did not say, but made me believe.
 
 
These interviews and the statements rather definitely made seem to me
to mean no approval of a peace conference unless Germany and Italy are
granted about all they want. And events in Europe since last December
all        point the same way: Hitler and Mussolini intend to control
all Europe. If that be agreed to beforehand, a peace conference is
quite possible; but what sort of a peace? Anyone who knows the
sophomoric and egotistic mentalities of these men and their chief
supporters can hardly fail to forecast the coming state of European
civilization. Is there any way democratic countries can save the
civilization which dates back to Luther, Erasmus, the Hollanders and
the English?
 
 
Our country made democracy possible for Europe between 1776 and 1815,
the population 3,000,000 to 8,000,000.  It was a "miracle" which made
the French Revolution possible, and then all western Europe became
substantially democratic before 1860. The war of 1914-18 would have
subjected Europe to a single dictatorship but for the intervention of
our country: our one aim to save democracy. The blunders all greater
nations have made since 1920 surpass anything recorded in modern
history. Now we see clearly what is before us. Can our country of
130,000,000 people and more real wealth than all western Europe do
anything? Our people say no; and the Senate says the Constitution
authorizes one-third of their members to defeat any policy the
President