that there can be no conference if Russians have anything to do with
it. Schacht called upon the Russians through the Press yesterday as he
returned to stop all propaganda- the very same day Goebbels was in
Venice conferring with the Italian Propaganda Minister; and we know the
Nazis have maintained highly expensive propaganda agents and groups in
Spain for two years. The Propaganda chief for dissemination of
"enlightenment" to other countries now has more than 500 clerks in his
Berlin office.
 
 
The German journalists have not mentioned the world-wide newspaper
story that President Roosevelt had asked for a conference of world
leaders for peace. A Foreign Office official laughed when one of our
staff people asked
him discreetly if the Germans had heard of the matter.  How could the
Fuhrer leave his country with a thousand armed guardsmen?  There is no
prospect of a peace agreement except upon the basis of a solid
Fascist-Nazi European front. The French Ambassador, himself
half-Fascist, a shareholder in the largest iron-ore mines in Lorraine
and a member of the Comite de Forges, and very uneasy, said yesterday:
If the Schacht negotiations fail war is almost certain to come next
year. I think from the tone of the