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Lothian was quite impossible.
Poland might perhaps offer wholly friendly relations one
day, but Czecho-Slovakia never.
General Goering continued: Lothian should understand that
England is a saturated power.
But from Germany everything had been taken away; Germany
lived In narrow confines, with a growlng population, 500,000 surplus
births over deaths, increasing soon to a million.
What is going to happen to us? England should agree that
an agreement must be a fair and a real one, an agreement requiring
Germany to renounce all her claims would be of no vague.
The Germans would not follow the policy of William II.
They were not going in for a strong Navy. The naval Treaty
was a proof of this attitude.
England had distributed its peoples across the world. Was it
going to object to Germany a modest solution of its difficulties?
Lothian seemed to have proposed a small change in colonial
matters, as for the rest, things were to remain as before.
Such a one-sided proposal was no pact, provided no basis for
an understanding.
Goering proceeded that he regretted to see British policy
weakened by a hypnotic fear of Germany - Britain had lost a great
deal in all directions because it had allowed itself to fall under
this most unfortunate hypnosis - that was the cause of its failure
in the Abyssinian affair and he could name some others.
It misinterpreted on that account Germany's pursurance of friendly
relatlons with Italy and Japan.
Goering further stated that a feeling was beginning to arise