BERLIN, March 3, 1940.
 
          I talked at some length with the Italian and Belgian Ambassadors in Berlin, who are by far 
 
the most experienced members of the local Diplomatic Corps. They are both of them confident 
 
that the internal and army opposition toHitler, which had assumed some proportions in November
 
1939, has now completely died away.
 
         They told me that both the German army and the German people have by now been 
 
thoroughly convinced by propaganda of the German Government that the aims of the Allies are to 
 
destroy Germany and the German people, and that recent propaganda of the Allies, and recent 
 
speeches by British and French statesmen, had strongly increased this feeling in Germany. Both of 
 
the Ambassadors are confident that the Allied Government's  grossly underestimate Germany's 
 
military strength and the ability of the German people to withstand a protracted war.  Both of the 
 
Ambassadors are in agreement that a war of devastation will make any discussion of peace utterly 
 
impossible, and that the time within which peace terms can be discussed before Germany strikes is 
 
very brief indeed.
 
          The Belgian Ambassador assured me that Germany' s stores of oil are far greater than is 
 
realized by the British and French Governments, and that a large-scale offensive can be 
 
undertaken by Germany without bringing the German army to a point where it will suffer any lack
 
of its full requirements.