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Switzerland complete independence, yet authorizes maps in universities,
and for sale everywhere, which show these countries as parts of
Germany. At the same time the propaganda in these little countries, as
also in Norway, Sweden, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, secret and
public, contradicts the idea of real independence of any country where
there are any considerable numbers of people of German descent.
Millions of dollars are spent each year in this direction, and Boehle,
chief of Foreign Propaganda organization, is now the most important
official in the Foreign Office after von Neurath. There are secret
agents of Boehle in all the German diplomatic offices. What this means
one can readily see.
 
 
Dr. Schacht said to me a few days ago at a table where high Nazi
officials sat: "Mussolini is annexing Spain and later annexing Egypt -
he is our Julius Caesar." I raised some questions as to the dangers. He
insisted that he was right. I raised the point a few days later when
von Neurath
was in Vienna, and the opinion there was not quite in agreement.
However, the Foreign Office has several ties asserted that Germany
would not protest against Italian annexation of Egypt. On this occasion
the Foreign Office again asserted Germany's right to control the
"Danube" zone, and hoped von Neurath could unite Austria, Hungary,
Germany and Italy - a slight fear that Mussolini might not keep his
promises to Germany, he being a masterful Machiavelli. When I talked
about better commercial relations with the United States, the
Staatssekretar said he favored proper trade and treay arrangements. I
asked why
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