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My offer, continued the Chancellor, of a non aggression 
Pact to Czecho-Slovakia still stands, but the essential condition 
of its conclusion would be full satisfaction of the claims of the 
German minority.
 
 
Lord Lothian raised the question of the possibility of 
armament limitation. The Chancellor asked rather ironically would 
England agree now to limitation. Did we Germans start? asked 
the Chancellor. Germany began re-arming from the height of the 
small little hill the Kreuzburg (outside Berlin) and England from 
the Zugspitze (the highest mountain peak in Germany in Bavaria). 
The Chancellor went on: he had made several important offers of 
armament limitation, in 1934 April, air limitation, and he described 
the proportional strength he then offered, abolition of 
bombing, and of pffensive weakness, he then referred to the 
economic Russian armament with its 7000 tanks etc. England alone, 
continued the Chancellor, had accepted one of these offers in the
Naval Treaty.
 
 
The Chancellor proceeded to say that in spite of everything 
he was convinced that Great Britain would wish to be on 
friendly terms with Germany and cooperate closely with her. 
After the Spanish affair was over he hoped that England would be 
mmmmmmm convinced of German loyalty in this respect. He wished
to say that he the Chancellor welcomed England's Gentleman's 
Agreement with Italy. He was of the opinion that friendly relations 
between England, Italy, Japan and Germany were of the greatest 
value to each of these countries. He expressed the view 
that Japan's new position in the Asiatic Continent harmed England 
less than if ht had pushed its expansion in other directions.
Japan with a population of 90 millions had to expand in one or
other direction. English interests were better served by the
present position. He liked to think float the old traditional
friendship between Japan and England would continue. He, Hitler,
would like to encourage the friendship - he hoped that the British
Government realised that his policy in this field had this aim-