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that there is no hope for peace. You will there learn what I now know, and that is that the British 
 
and French Governments are determined to destroy Germany, and that no peace, except on that 
 
basis,will be considered by them. If there is any way of averting the war which I believe is 
 
inevitable, your Government will have accomplished the greatest thing which human beings could 
 
desire. From the bottom of my heart I wish you success."
 
          Before I left Karinhall to return to Berlin, the Field Marshal escorted me through all the 
 
miles of rooms in the first floor of his house.
 
          I have never seen so incredibly ugly a building. The walls are lined with paintings, some of 
 
them superb examples by old Italian and German masters, placed side by side with daubs by 
 
modern German painters.  Many of the halls are filled with glass cases, in which are olaced gold 
 
gifts that have been presented to the Field Marshal during recent years.  Goering told me that he 
 
personally had arranged the placing of every object in the house.