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          The Chancellor then very quietly and moderately outlined his foreign policy during the 
 
past seven years.  The outline pursned exactly the lines followed in my conversation of the day 
 
before by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. (It is noteworthy that in every conversation I had with 
 
every member af the German Government, except Dr. Schacht, exactly the same historical survey
 
prefaced the conversation. It is entirely clear that either the Chancellor or the Foreign Secretary 
 
had dictated the course which the conversations to be had with me by the members of the German 
 
Government were to follow.)
 
          Hitler, however, emphasized even more strongly than had Herr von Ribbentrop his desire 
 
to reach an amicable and lasting understanding with England. He stressed particularly the naval 
 
agreement of 1935 as an indication that Germany, under his Government, had no intention of
 
challenging British naval supremacy nor the security of the British Empire. When he came to the 
 
account of the negotiations with Poland which had resulted in the invasion of Poland by Germany 
 
in September, he turned to me and said, I have never in my life made a more earnest nor a more 
 
sincere appeal than I did to the British Ambassador, Sir Neville Henderson, when I sent for him 
 
just prior to the break with Poland. He was sitting in the same place where you are now sitting, 
 
and I besought him to tell his Government that Germany had no intention of attacking England 
 
nor of impairing directly or indirectly British interests, but that Germany could not permit a
 
continued domination by the Western European powers of the smaller States of Eastern Europe, 
 
nor the continuation of a state of affairs which resulted in a continuous attack and a continuous 
 
threat upon German vital interests." The Chancellor theh concluded by saying, "That appeal, like
 
every