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being so slow and shortsighted in failing to cooperate 
with the Streseman government and rectifying at least 
a part of the intolerable inequities of the Versailles 
Treaty. If England had then given Germany 10 percent 
of what Hitler has since taken the present situation and 
regime would not have arisen. England had also blundered 
in not taking active measures to solve the remaining
critical problems of Europe following the Munich Agreement. 
Immediately after that agreement England should have 
come to Hitler and said, "It is agreed to take no step 
likely to trouble the European situation without 
consultation and we have come, therefore, to consult 
about the problems of Danzig and the Corridor and 
the other difficulties." Had England taken such a step
there was a possibility that the present tragedy might 
have been avoided. He thought that Henderson had 
been an unfortunate choice as Ambassador in that, 
until it was too late to stop the march of events, he 
had given the German Government the impression that 
England would not really go to war. The previous French 
Ambassador - Poncet - had been an excellent one -
Coulondre's term had been too brief for him to acquire 
influence.
 
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