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that these German agents were instructed to follow exactly the same lines as those followed by 
 
Henlein in the Rudetenland.
 
          At this stage I interrupted to ask, with reference to the Prime Minister's statement that he 
 
believed that the German peoples of Central Europe had a right to unite, what his view might be 
 
with regard to the attitude of the Austrian people, so far as continued amalgamation with the 
 
German Reich was concerned. I told him that I had been frequently told that the majority of the 
 
Austrian people preferred continued amalgamation with the Reich to the kind of national 
 
semi-starvation which they had undergone during the twenty years following 1919.  N. Daladier 
 
replied that his own judgment was that if a fair plebiscite was held in Austria an overwhelming 
 
majority would indicate their desire to separate from the Reich, and possibly to amalgamate with 
 
some other country, such as Hungary, but that, from the standpoint of French policy, with regard  
 
to any possible peace basis, France would agree to a continued domination by Germany of 
 
Austria, if a really impartial plebiscite showed that the Austrian people so desired.
 
          The Prime Minister made it very clear to me that he did not believe that political or 
 
territorial adjustment would create any insuperable difficulty in reaching peace. He made it equally 
 
clear that whatever he might say in public, he would not refuse to deal with the present German 
 
regime, but always upon one fundamental and essential basis, nsmely that France should thereby 
 
obtain actual